Giga House Town effort of Keio University 2002 report (note effort was 2000 on)

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: "Jonathan M. Smith" <jms () cis upenn edu>
Date: February 15, 2010 10:29:07 AM EST
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Re: [IP] Giga House Town effort of Keio University 2002 report (note effort was 2000 on)

Interesting - too bad the US dropped the ball after the Gigabit Testbeds - http://www.cnri.reston.va.us/gigafr/ - 
started in the late 19-EIGHTIES!!!!!
-JMS


On Feb 15, 2010, at 10:22 AM, David Farber wrote:

> http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:vA4f4Dq7IWUJ:www.lancs.ac.uk/depts/spc/research/Plastic-Optical-Fibre-Consortium/pof-02-report.doc+gigatown+project+japan&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=safari
>
>
> A.  Giga House Town Project - Exhibition
> This is a new project co-ordinated by Keio Engineering Foundation and financed by Industry and Government to 
> demonstrate that graded index plastic optical fibre GI–POF, such as the Asahi Glass  ‘Lucina’ fibre (with attenuation 
> less than 20dB/km with transmission extending from the visible to 1.3mm), can be used successfully in the ‘last mile’ 
> LAN applications.  Such a network using GI-POF already exists (since 2-3 years ago) at Keio University operating at 1 
> Gbps and connecting four building of the campus.  This network during the demonstration at the conference was 
> referred to as the ‘Giga Island’ network. For this event, this giga island was connected through glass fibre (part of 
> the Tokyo network) to the exhibition hall of the Hotel, where there was the ‘Giga House Town Project Exhibition’ and 
> a ‘Telemedicine’ set up both of which were  using GI-POF (1 Gbps). Following the interconnection between glass and 
> POF was the ‘Giga-Tree’ from which many POF connections were derived serving the giga-house and the telemedicine 
> room. The giga-house can, in ‘principle’, have Gbps services and currently some 80 houses in a new condominium in 
> Tokyo are fully equipped with experimental POF networks enjoying very fast (10-50 Mbps most likely) connections to 
> the rest of the world.  Understandably, a very significant (perhaps the most significant) part of the giga-town 
> project is ‘what type of services’ would one like to enjoy at home.  The need for older people to have access to 
> telemedicine was quoted as an example, while a telesurgery example had been demonstrated during the teleconferencing 
> session that was held during the first session of the conference and that was attended by almost 1000 invited 
> representatives from industry.  The most important challenge of this ‘Giga House Town Project’ was consindered not to 
> be the ‘hardware’ which after all had just been demonstrated, but the ‘content of the service’ for this highly 
> computerised house environment that has been shown to be possible using GI-POF.
>
> Archives





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