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[ NNSquad ] The Net that Got Away
----- Forwarded message from Dave Farber <dave@farber.net> ----- Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2009 20:58:26 -0500 From: Dave Farber <dave@farber.net> Subject: [IP] New article: The Net that Got Away Reply-To: dave@farber.net To: ip <ip@v2.listbox.com> Begin forwarded message: > From: "Fred R. Goldstein" <fgoldstein@IONARY.COM> > Date: December 6, 2009 8:17:17 PM EST > To: CYBERTELECOM-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM > Subject: New article: The Net that Got Away > Reply-To: Telecom Regulation & the Internet > <CYBERTELECOM-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM> > > Apropos to Bruce's postings, including his most recent, my latest > article is now up on TMCnet. It drills down into the 1992-1993 time > frame and discusses, in business and technical terms, the network that > was apparently being promised by the ILECs before they pulled their > switcheroo. It was not an ISP, though it could have been used to access > them. > > http://hosted-voip.tmcnet.com/feature/articles/70379-net-that-got-away.htm > > [a few sentences from the middle -- the first part of the article cites > Bruce's work] > ... > The key high-speed network technology of the early 1990s was formally > called Asynchronous Transfer Mode, or ATM for sort. Not many people > remember it but there was a bit of an investment bubble in ATM companies > right around then. ATM had been proposed a few years earlier as the key > technology for an international program called Broadband ISDN (B-ISDN). > The common copper-wire-based ISDN technologies that actually did roll > out in the 1990s were formally called Narrowband ISDN, while B-ISDN was > designed for all-optical networks fiber to the home (FTTH). > > B-ISDN standards specified two interface speeds, 155 Mbps and 622 Mbps. > When these were being firmed up around 1986, they appeared to be rocket > science, but Moore's Law was in full effect, and it was assumed that the > technology to mass-produce B-ISDN would be available by the time the old > copper wire telephone networks were replaced with glass. That was > anticipated to be the distant future, the late 1990s. > ... > > -- > Fred Goldstein k1io fgoldstein "at" ionary.com > ionary Consulting http://www.ionary.com/ > +1 617 795 2701 ------------------------------------------- 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 -----