The Unpredictable Certainty: Information Infrastructure Through 2000
Contents
- 1 INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY
- Defining the National Information Infrastructure
- Driving Deployment: Business Transitions, Business Models
- The Significance of the Internet
- As a Barometer of Potential
- As a Laboratory for Development of Workable Standards
- As a Basis for Critical Flexibility
- As a Vehicle for New Market Structures
- Whither the Internet?
- Realizing the NII'S PotentialThe User Perspective
- Deployment of Infrastructure Technology
- Access
- Flexibility and Interoperability
- Additional Technology Concerns
- User Interaction with Networked Infrastructure
- Public Versus Private Objectives
- Organization of This Report
- Notes
- 2 MAKING TECHNOLOGY WORK: INDIVIDUAL AND ORGANIZED END USERS
- Who Is the End User?
- Why the NII Must Reach the Home
- Evolving Demand for NII Capabilities
- The End User as Consumer
- Access Devices
- The Personal Computer
- The Television
- Advanced Television
- The Telephone and Other Access Devices
- Toward a Fully Integrated Home System
- What Increasing Use of General-Access Devices Implies for Networking Technology Deployment
- High Data Rates to the End Point
- Adequate Bandwidth in Both Directions
- Multiple-Session Capability
- Continuous Availability of Service
- Real-time, Multimedia Communication
- Nomadicity
- Security
- Concluding Observations
- Notes
- 3 WHERE IS THE BUSINESS CASE?
- Factors Shaping Investment in Information Infrastructure
- Investment in Facilities
- The Problem of How Much Bandwidth to Invest In
- Federal Licenses as an Influence on Deployment of New Wireless Systems
- Investing to Achieve Infrastructure Generality
- From Facilities to Services and Applications
- Balancing InvestmentSoftware "Capital"
- The Separation of Services from FacilitiesBroadening the Potential Content
- The Internet and Its Use for Business
- Effects on Provision of Goods and Services
- The InternetLayering, Incrementalism, and Diversification
- Incremental Increases
- Arrangements for Interconnection
- Economic Models
- Usage-based Fees for Communications and Information Services
- Embedded or Domain-specific Services
- The Broadcast Model
- End-User Devices Paid for by Consumers
- The Access Subscription Model
- Payment Models and the Internet Phenomenon
- Notes
- 4 TECHNOLOGY OPTIONS AND CAPABILITIES: WHAT DOES WHAT, HOW
- The Changing Nature of Technology and Communications
- How Trends in Technology Are Changing Communications
- Infrastructure and Services
- Separation of Infrastructure Facilities and Service Offerings
- Building Services on Each Other
- The Tension Between Supporting Mature and Emerging Services
- Resolving the Tension: The Internet as an Example
- The Importance of the Internet
- The Coexistence of New and Mature Services
- Current TechnologyEvaluating the Options
- Hybrid Fiber Coaxial Cable
- Fiber to the Curb
- Digital Services and the Telephone Infrastructure
- Data Over the Telephone System
- Asynchronous Transfer Mode
- Local Area Networks
- Wireless
- Broadcasting
- Satellite
- Power Industry as Infrastructure Provider
- The Internet
- Change and Growth
- Transport Infrastructure to Information Infrastructure
- Open Interfaces and Open Standards
- Standards and Innovation in the Marketplace
- Management and Control of the Infrastructure
- Notes
- 5 TECHNOLOGY CHOICES: WHAT ARE THE PROVIDERS DEPLOYING?
- Introduction
- Wireline Telephony
- Summary and Forecasts
- Local Access and the Larger System
- Integrated Services Digital Network
- Telephone Industry Fiber Deployment
- Demand for Telephone Services
- Data Communications
- Summary and Forecasts
- Data Services Provided by Telephone Carriers
- Business Networking
- Cable Television and Telephony: Advanced Services to the Home
- Summary and Forecasts
- Advanced Cable and Telephone Services to the Home
- On-line Services and Internet Access for Consumers
- Summary and Forecasts
- On-line Services and Internet Access
- Wireless and Broadcast Infrastructure
- Summary and Forecasts
- Wireless Telephony
- Wireless Data Networking
- Terrestrial and Satellite Broadcast Television
- Wireless Cable
- Direct Broadcast Satellite
- Notes
- 6 PUBLIC POLICY AND PRIVATE ACTION
- Introduction
- Public-Private Engagement
- NII Systems Issues
- Defining Roles for Government
- Regulation, Rules, and Norms
- Protecting the NII: Ethics and Mechanisms
- Security, Reliability, and Architecture
- Government as User and Service Provider
- Technology Development Through R&D
- Architecture and Networking
- Information Management and Ease of Use
- Standards
- International Issues
- Systems Data and Analysis for NII Assessment
- Government as Convenor
- Conclusions
- Notes
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
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