NNSquad - Network Neutrality Squad
[ NNSquad ] Re: DSLP AT&T CTO Wants Non-discrimination
----- Forwarded message from David Farber <dave@farber.net> ----- Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 17:37:06 -0500 From: David Farber <dave@farber.net> Subject: [IP] WORTH READING DSLP AT&T CTO Wants Non-discrimination Reply-To: dave@farber.net To: ip <ip@v2.listbox.com> >From a requested anonymous friend: "Never one to trust the second (third?) hand reports, I took a look at the video, available on the SuperComm website. As is often the case, context matters. This was a panel discussion of the CTOs of Verizon, Qwest, AT&T, Sprint etc. with a moderator asking questions. After an hour or so of questions about growing demands on the network and what the CTOs were doing about it, the moderator said: “I’m getting ready to change topics and climb out of the network and move up a little higher in the stack and talk a little more about applications . . . The industry in general is talking about software-oriented networks and the ability to combine Web 2.0, IMS, SOA . . . So, I’ll ask each of you to answer this very quickly – How does your company define what software-oriented network actually is?” The response was a response to that question, not to anything about “dumb” or “smart” pipes, network management, quality of service, government regulation, or anything else relevant to the current network neutrality debate. Now, I’m no expert on “software-oriented network” (SON) or “software-oriented architecture” (SOA) principles, but I did a little Internet research and it seems to refer to (somewhat loosely defined) cooperation among/communications between various types of system applications used to deliver services, such as OSS (operating support systems) and BSS (billing support systems), not end user applications (in other words, creating more seamless communication/integration between the network/service provider and third parties to which it has (contractually) outsourced particular functionalities). Moreover, SON/SOA also seems to contemplate more, not less, applications intelligence residing in the network to facilitate that coordination. So, sorry, there is no net neutrality headline here. (Seems like Mr. Burstein could have figured this out with a little due diligence.)" and "note that I wrote down the quote as a I was listening to the blip.tv video of the panel; if you want to verify that I got it exactly right here's the link http://www.nextgenweb.org/supercomm-2009 Go to the Oct. 21 sessions. Time code of the question on SONs comes at 64:40 - John's comments begin around 69:50." ------------------------------------------- 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 -----