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[ NNSquad ] Will Google or Cisco Determine Our Future Broadband Networks?
----- Forwarded message from David Farber <dave@farber.net> ----- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 11:53:49 -0400 From: David Farber <dave@farber.net> Subject: [IP] Will Google or Cisco Determine Our Future Broadband Networks? Reply-To: dave@farber.net To: ip <ip@v2.listbox.com> Begin forwarded message: 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. [snip]RSS Feed: <http://www.warpspeed.com/wordpress> ------------------------------------------- Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ----- End forwarded message -----