The telecommunications industry at a crossroads: Uncertain economics overpower mazy technological innovation Master in Engineering Policy and Management of Technology Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal P. Ferreira February 1 st, 2002
Agenda TCP/IPWWW ARPANETNSF Telecommunications Act Local Loop Backbone optics Private ownership FEDERALFIRMSMARKET CHALLENGES
The Early Days The cold war times: the ARPANET (’69) BBN (AS#1) (70s) and packet switching TCP/IP (’74) and the OSI model (80’s) The NSF backbone (early 90s) 1
Technology & Innovation The World Wide Web (‘89) and browsers (’93) Classless Inter-domain Routing (’91/’92) Border Gateway Protocol (’94/’95) Peering: Bill&Keep, Complex routing policies 2 Source: Matrix Internet and Directory Services (MIDS)
Private Business The industry (infra-structure): Quest: fiber deployment Cisco: the routing oligopoly AT&T: telephony and data businesses Akamai: web-site mirroring and caching Services and e-business: Amazon: sales front-end eBay: general item auction Vehix: automotive “vortal” BandX: bandwidth trading 3
Private Business Telecommunications Act of 1996 The current backbone: Optical Networks and cross-connects (e.g. cost model) Wavelength division multiplexing Peering agreements and interconnection The access loop: Unbundling and competition Digital subscriber line and cable modems (e.g. cost models) Wireless technologies 3
Future Challenges Pricing models: Flat rate, Usage rate, Congestion rate Quality of service: IntServ, DiffServ, CBR Bandwidth trading: Extreme competition with SLAs Moore’s law, direct linking, GigaPOPs 4
Conclusions (with an EP perspective) policy competition unbundling technology backbonelocal loop economics 80s 90s 00s Mazy innovation Overpowered by Uncertain economics
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