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Why new network business models and architectures are necessary
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:18:12 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: dewayne () warpspeed com (Dewayne Hendricks) Date: June 19, 2007 2:47:20 PM EDT To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <xyzzy () warpspeed com>Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Why new network business models and architectures are necessary
[Note: I'm cross posting this from Bill St. Arnaud's list. Bill does a great job of framing this problem and pulling together information from various places. I thought my readers should see this. I agree with Bill that more universities should get off their collective butts and do more deployment of alternative first mile infrastructures. DLH]
From: "Bill St.Arnaud" <bill.st.arnaud () canarie ca> Date: June 19, 2007 10:00:56 AM PDT To: <news () canarie ca>Subject: [CAnet - news] Why new network business models and architectures are necessary
For more information on this item please visit my blog at http://billstarnaud.blogspot.com/ -------------------------------------------[The following web sites point to some of the challenging problems facing users and application providers in trying to deliver innovative solutions over the current broadband last mile Internet architecture. Despite all the advances in Internet technology, Moore's law, routers, optical switches, etc the current Internet is still riding on an infrastructure that was designed
over 100 years in the case of DSL/telephone and over 40 years ago in thecase of cable. Not only is this tree and branch architecture outdated, the resulting business model is fundamentally shaped and distorted by the design
assumption in that architecture.The Internet architecture for the long haul and enterprise markets has been
radically reshaped over the past decade because of rigorous competition.Many large enterprises multi-home to several competitive providers and also do their own direct remote peering because of the availability of dark fiber in most metro markets. As a result companies with new competitive business
models largely dominate the enterprise Internet market such as Level3, Cogent, Equinix, etc. In the last mile it is a different story.Cablecos and Telcos are now wrestling with the data deluge of Internet video distribution over their networks whether P2P or HTTP. Many have quietly and surreptitiously implemented various policing and shaping mechanisms to limit the growth of this traffic. Although it is applied on a non- discriminatory
basis in terms of the customer or the provider, most cablecos and telcos still don't understand the broader implications in terms of networkneutrality and are surprised when the public takes umbrage at such tactics.
This is especially true when they block VoIP over cell phones.The final frontier is the last mile architecture to our neighborhoods and
homes. I am pleased to see that Australia is taking a proactive step inthis direction with their recent $AUS 2 billion broadband announcement and
the formation of an open committee to specify the FTTN architecture.I have always argued that university/research community needs to take a more proactive role in both the research and, more importantly, the deployment of alternative last mile architectures. GENI (and the European equivalent PAN)
is a critical step on the technology research side. But we also need new examples of actual deployments and business models. I know of a couple universities that plan to build virtual 3G wireless networks so thatstudents will be free to integrate WiFi and pico-cells with their regular
cell phones and also be free to develop new applications and serviceswithout getting permission of the underlying wireless provider. A couple of institutions are also exploring innovative last mile broadband networks for
their universities and dormitories, and be liberated from the bandwidthlimiting tyranny of either the service provider or the campus CIO -- BSA]
From Dewayne Henrdick's list From: Ken DiPietro Will carriers spoil the online video party? <http://www.last100.com/2007/05/28/will-isps-spoil-the-online-video- party/> BBC story on the Internet is being overloaded http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/6756899.stm
From Dewayne Hendricks list Early adopters want Wi-Fi mobile phones, T-Mobile wants to kill VOIP <http://www.pjentrepreneur.com/2007/06/16/early-adopters-want-wi-fi- mobile-phones-t-mobile-wants-to-kill-voip/> Research firm In-Stat reports that there's a substantial market niche for Wi-Fi enabled mobile phones: A recent survey of US early adopters found that almost half of those respondents plan to replace their cell phones want Wi-Fi capability. To meet the growing demand, there is an avalanche of dual-mode phones in the pipeline. By the end of this year, the Wi-Fi Alliance will have certified more than 100 different models of Wi-Fi/cellular phones . . . widespread Wi-Fi deployment and the variety of Wi-Fi/ cellular handsets offers Wi-Fi/Cellular based systems a significant head-start in the market," says Allen Nogee, In-Stat Principal Analyst. "Other technologies, such as WiMAX and Ultra Wideband, are also poised to enter the handset market, but Wi-Fi fills a unique niche that WiMAX and UWB cannot match."
An alternate architecture for university dormitory networks<http://www.canarie.ca/canet4/library/customer/ Customer_Owned_Network_for_uni
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