Re: Will Google or Cisco Determine Our Future Broadband Networks?

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

I do. djf

Begin forwarded message:

From: Gary Johnston <johnston () nku edu>
Date: September 7, 2009 10:13:15 AM EDT
To: "<dave () farber net>" <dave () farber net>
Subject: Re: [IP] Will Google or Cisco Determine Our Future Broadband  
Networks?

I wonder what seemingly insignificant blip on the radar will become  
tomorrow's trend. But even more I wonder if we will take the  
undergraduate student who shows it to us seriously.

Professor Gary Johnston

Sent from Gary's 3GS iPhone

On Sep 7, 2009, at 9:49 AM, "David Farber" <dave () farber net> wrote:

> I also remember  while I was at Bell Labs we wrote  a letter to AT&T
> asking if we could do some experimentation on packet switching -- --
> we had read among other things the Baron memo.
> We received a reply from AT&T which I can paraphrase at this late date
> as "there is no business in the data area".
>
> Dave
>
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> From: "Rick W. Weingarten" <rweingarten () alawash org>
>
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> Date: September 6, 2009 9:56:30 PM EDT
> To: <dave () farber net>
> Subject: RE: [IP] Will Google or Cisco Determine Our Future Broadband
> Networks?
>
> Re the Metcalf story. When I was directing studies on
> telecommunications policy at the now defunct congressional Office of
> Technology Assessment (OTA), a Bell Labs VP visited me and stated
> flatly--slightly paraphrased, it was a long time ago--"data transport
> will never be an important part of communication services."
>
> A few years later, in the early nineties, I was still in the same
> position, and I was asked to brief a group of senior telco lobbyists
> about telecom policy issues. Their first question was, "what is this
> Internet thing?"
>
> Rick
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Farber [mailto:dave () farber net]
> Sent: Fri 9/4/2009 11:53 AM
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> Subject: [IP] Will Google or Cisco Determine Our Future Broadband
> Networks?
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> From: dewayne () warpspeed com (Dewayne Hendricks)
> Date: September 3, 2009 11:37:19 PM EDT
> To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <xyzzy () warpspeed com>
> Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Will Google or Cisco Determine Our Future
> Broadband Networks?
>
> Will Google or Cisco Determine Our Future Broadband Networks?
> By Stacey Higginbotham  | Thursday, September 3, 2009   | 1:17 PM PT
> <http://gigaom.com/2009/09/03/will-google-or-cisco-determine-our-future-broadband-networks/
> >
>
> At the FCC broadband workshop held this morning, researchers argued
> for a new Internet architecture built upon infrastructure currently
> used in large data centers that would be capable of adapting itself to
> deliver each individual application. Meanwhile, those associated with
> think tanks and the broadband industry argued that the most
> significant Internet-related innovation is already behind us and that
> we need to think about embedding more intelligence into the network we
> have.
>
> It reminded me of Vanity Fair's awesome story about the making of the
> web in which Bob Metcalfe relates his attempts to show some AT&T
> executives the precursor to the Internet:
>
> Bob Metcalfe: Imagine a bearded grad student being handed a dozen AT&T
> executives, all in pin-striped suits and quite a bit older and cooler.
> And I'm giving them a tour. And when I say a tour, they're standing
> behind me while I'm typing on one of these terminals. I'm traveling
> around the Arpanet showing them: Ooh, look. You can do this. And I'm
> in U.C.L.A. in Los Angeles now. And now I'm in San Francisco. And now
> I'm in Chicago. And now I'm in Cambridge, Massachusetts-isn't this
> cool? And as I'm giving my demo, the damned thing crashed.
>
> And I turned around to look at these 10, 12 AT&T suits, and they were
> all laughing. And it was in that moment that AT&T became my bête
> noire, because I realized in that moment that these sons of bitches
> were rooting against me.
>
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