Good stuff from multiple people at this session of Freedom to Connect.
Sascha Meinrath had a good illustration of the middle mile problem. He quoted prices for 1 Mbps of "IP Transit," i.e. 1 Mbps continuous symmetric traffic, in various cities: San Francisco $10/month; Chicago $80/month (that surprises me); and then two locations downstate, the second of which was Greenough(?), IL where the price was several hundred dollars.
Becca Vargo Daggett made an appeal for local decisions and local management. One think I picked up was her desire for user control of their local fiber, whether it's owned by local public bodies or local fiber condominiums.
Jim Snider made a strong appeal for spectrum reform, following up an excellent question he had put to Governor Douglas yesterday. Why are more people complaining about the Federal restrictions on the use of completely empty spectrum. Yesterday, Governor Douglas basically said it was too hard an issue for the Governor's council to tackle. Jim pressed the point that federal restrictions on spectrum that is completely unused in rural areas is a major impediment to local broadband rollout.
Becca came back to press that federal policy to prevent states from preempting localities and federal policy to free up spectrum, but any other federal policy is likely to screw up local activities and needs to be avoided at all costs.
In the Q&A, it became clear that one can't talk about Mbps of IP Transit because even in a sophisticated audience like this, there is confusion with consumer access bandwidth, i.e. confusion between statistically multiplexed access feeds (none of which is using X Mbps continuously) and wholesale continuous Mbps at a network exchange. Clearly Mbps for IP Transit may be precise, but it is misunderstood by the majority. No one had another name to suggest.
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Posted by: Renjith | October 07, 2008 at 06:02 AM