[CAnet - news] Why new network business models and architectures are necessary

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 [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 the
case 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 Not only is this tree and branch architecture outdated, the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 network
neutrality 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 in
this 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 that
students will be free to integrate WiFi and pico-cells with their regular
cell phones and also be free to develop new applications and services
without 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 bandwidth
limiting 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
versity_dorm.ppt


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