New article: The Net that Got Away

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Fred R. Goldstein" <fgoldstein () IONARY COM>
> Date: December 6, 2009 8:17:17 PM EST
> To: CYBERTELECOM-L () LISTSERV AOL COM
> Subject: New article:  The Net that Got Away
> Reply-To: Telecom Regulation & the Internet <CYBERTELECOM-L () LISTSERV AOL COM 
> >

> Apropos to Bruce's postings, including his most recent, my latest  
> article is now up on TMCnet.  It drills down into the 1992-1993 time  
> frame and discusses, in business and technical terms, the network  
> that was apparently being promised by the ILECs before they pulled  
> their switcheroo.  It was not an ISP, though it could have been used  
> to access them.
>
> http://hosted-voip.tmcnet.com/feature/articles/70379-net-that-got-away.htm
>
> [a few sentences from the middle -- the first part of the article  
> cites Bruce's work]
> ...
> The key high-speed network technology of the early 1990s was  
> formally called Asynchronous Transfer Mode, or ATM for sort. Not  
> many people remember it but there was a bit of an investment bubble  
> in ATM companies right around then. ATM had been proposed a few  
> years earlier as the key technology for an international program  
> called Broadband ISDN (B-ISDN). The common copper-wire-based ISDN  
> technologies that actually did roll out in the 1990s were formally  
> called Narrowband ISDN, while B-ISDN was designed for all-optical  
> networks  fiber to the home (FTTH).
>
> B-ISDN standards specified two interface speeds, 155 Mbps and 622  
> Mbps. When these were being firmed up around 1986, they appeared to  
> be rocket science, but Moore's Law was in full effect, and it was  
> assumed that the technology to mass-produce B-ISDN would be  
> available by the time the old copper wire telephone networks were  
> replaced with glass. That was anticipated to be the distant future,  
> the late 1990s.
> ...
>
> --
> Fred Goldstein    k1io   fgoldstein "at" ionary.com
> ionary Consulting              http://www.ionary.com/
> +1 617 795 2701



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