Will Google or Cisco Determine Our Future Broadband Networks?

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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


Begin forwarded message:

From: "Rick W. Weingarten" <rweingarten () alawash org>


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

Fred (Rick) Weingarten
Technology Policy Consultant
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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  
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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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