more on Initiative - A Broadband Vision for California

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 14:13:29 +0100
From: David Prior <david () priorintelligence com>

Dave:

For IP if relevant:

As someone who has been talking about 'broadband' starting at 10Mbps, with 
'real broadband' existing at 100Mbps+ (a view supported by Bob Metcalfe 
amongst others), for at least three years, I find this report both amusing 
and exciting. The jury is out as to exactly which emotion is winning....

One tiny consideration, which appears to be lacking from the report, is 
that this should not be a 'broadband vision' for California, or even the 
US, alone. From direct field experience, in locations with existing 
broadband services (viz. Singapore, S. Korea), services within the scope of 
the infrastructure are fantastic - try the Singapore library education 
service - but come to a crashing halt when accessed from an external 
location. Similarly, the applied load from attempts at massive external 
access illustrate the degradation that occurs in this 'island' approach. To 
borrow from the then CEO of Global Crossing: the New Jersey turnpike meets 
a dirt track.

It remains, therefore, to be seen if implementing this vision provides the 
benefits stated if it's links to the world outside California (and, yes, 
there actually is one.... :)) progress under normal circumstances. Issues 
of capacity inversion, provisioning, and service oriented mediation come to 
the fore amongst others. One thing this may do, however, is finally force 
the creation of a true wholesale market, separating connectivity from 
service provision.

Nice to see four years worth of thought coming to fruition. It's just a 
shame that more attention wasn't paid to this earlier....

Useful Links to Research Considerations for 1Gbps Access:
	- Swinburne University, CAIA - Inverted Capacity Experiment: 
http://caia.swin.edu.au/ice/
	- University of Melbourne, Ultra-Broadband Networking: 
http://www.ee.mu.oz.au/research/cubin/aboutcubin.html
	- And anything at CANARIE's pages related to LightPath/CEN Services: 
http://www.canarie.ca/canet4/index.html

Have fun!

David.

David Prior
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-----Original Message-----
From:   Dave Farber [SMTP:dave () farber net]
Sent:   Tuesday, June 17, 2003 10:31
To:     ip () v2 listbox com
Subject:        [IP]   Initiative - A Broadband Vision  for California



>Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 01:32:22 -0700
>From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com>
>
>
>[Note:  Call us crazy here in California, but we've adopted an initiative
>to bring one gigabit access to the Net to everyone in the state,
>everywhere in the state by the end of the decade.  This report goes a long
>way to explaining why we want to do this and how we plan to start going
>about it.  Wireless in going to play a big role in this effort.  Mark my
>words!  <g>  DLH]
>
>One Gigabit or Bust? Initiative - A Broadband Vision for California
>
>This report has been commissioned by the Corporation for Education Network
>Initiatives in California (CENIC). The State of California has awarded a
>grant to CENIC to focus on speeding one-gigabit broadband to all
>Californians by 2010, or in California shorthand, One Gigabit or Bust?.
>CENIC engaged Gartner to evaluate the economic potential of an
>acceleration of next generation broadband deployment in California. In
>addition, Gartner was asked to interview many of the top broadband
>thinkers, policy makers and consumer advocates within California and
>throughout the Unite States with a view toward understanding the
>opportunities and challenges a next generation broadband initiative in
>California might face.
>
>The specific objectives of this report are to:
>
>     * Estimate the economic benefit to the state
>     * Scope the project in terms of what needs to be done
>     * Outline the inportant items to be considered in strategy formalization
>     * Identify the next steps to be undertaken
>
>         The report can be found at:
>
>         <http://www.cenic.org/NGI/Gartner/index.htm>


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