Re: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband

[Fred Baker <fred () cisco com>]

If it's about stimulus money, I'm in favor of saying that broadband  
implies fiber to the home. That would provide all sorts of stimuli to  
the economy - infrastructure, equipment sales, jobs digging ditches,  
and so on. I could pretty quickly argue myself into suggesting special  
favors for deployment of DNSSEC, multicast, and IPv6. As in, use the  
stimulus money to propel a leap forward, not just waste it.

On Aug 26, 2009, at 9:44 AM, Carlos Alcantar wrote:

> I think the big push to get the fcc to define broadband is highly  
> based
> on the rus/ntia setting definitions of what broadband is.  If any  
> anyone
> has been fallowing the rus/ntia they are the one handing out all the
> stimulus infrastructure grant loan money.  So there are a lot of
> political reasons to make the definition of broadband a bit slower  
> than
> one would think.  I guess it doesn't hurt that the larger lec's with  
> the
> older infrastructure are shelling out the money to lobby to make sure
> the definition stays as low as can be.  They don't want to see the gov
> funding there competition.  Just my 2 cents.
>
> -carlos
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ted Fischer [mailto:ted () fred net]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 8:50 AM
> To: nanog () nanog org
> Subject: Re: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband
>
>
>
> Paul Timmins wrote:
> > Fred Baker wrote:
> > > On Aug 24, 2009, at 9:17 AM, Luke Marrott wrote:
> > >
> > > > What are your thoughts on what the definition of Broadband should  
> > > > be
>
> > > > going
> > > > forward? I would assume this will be the standard definition for a
> > > > number of
> > > > years to come.
> > >
> > >
> > > Historically, narrowband was circuit switched (ISDN etc) and
> broadband
> > > was packet switched. Narrowband was therefore tied to the digital
> > > signaling hierarchy and was in some way a multiple of 64 KBPS. As  
> > > the
>
> > > term was used then, broadband delivery options of course included
> > > virtual circuits bearing packets, like Frame Relay and ATM.
> > of or relating to or being a communications network in which the
> > bandwidth can be divided and shared by multiple simultaneous signals
> (as
> > for voice or data or video)
> >
> > That's my humble opinion. Let them use a new term, like "High Speed
> > Internet".
> Seconded