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Residential PC Access: Issues with Bandwidth Availability
Residential PC Access: Issues with Bandwidth Availability
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The consumer must be free to access all information services using this bandwidth. High-bandwidth access to information services must get the same level of attention with respect to public policy as providing competitive television and telephone delivery systems.
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The government role should be to encourage rapid industry convergence on such de facto standards or Implementation agreements that can later be the basis of more formal de lure ones. This paper attempts to lay out some requirements for the development of consumer PC information services broadly within the NII.
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However, there are a growing number of general Internet access providers available via this route as well. These provide general packet access into the Internet and thus to any information service In the developing NH.
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ANALYSIS, DIRECTIONS IN THE RESIDENTIAL ENVIRONMENT, AND FORECASTS Access Network Technologies Two major groups of companies are vying to provide digital services to the residential environment: the existing local exchange carriers and the cable entertainment companies. The former are building on their expertise in operating a highly reliable telephony network by offering higher-bandw~dth services through ISDN and through cable overlay systems that are capable of supplying broadband residential service.
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The alternate approach is typified by He existing low-bandwidth telephony access system and the growing Internet service providers. Here, the customer gets access to the general packet switched network and uses that to provide common carriage of data to various information service providers.
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Openness should exist in both directions. That is, providers should be able to attach to access networks to offer their services to consumers (similar to requirements for allowing video service providers to access "video dialtones"~.
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toward the establishment of such de facto standards or implementation agreements. Affordability A considerable concern exists about the affordability of an open consumer broadband data service.
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Nevertheless, it is important to develop a vision of where we would ideally like to wind up if we are to generate public policies that encourage development to proceed toward an end-po~nt architecture Hat can realize all the potentials of the Nit. We believe that the architecture should be broken into three parts: core networks, access networks, and home networks (Figure I)
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Once one understands these three related networks, it becomes clear that the critical issue for them is to define stable interfaces that can allow them to evolve independently while still delivering to the consumer a high level of service. The connection standards between the access networks and the core networks are already getting some amount of attention via the discussion of open video service providers.
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The first step in this direction can come from the rapid, ubiquitous deployment of ISDN to the residential environment. While it does not meet the full requirements, it can quickly get us moving toward the long term and can allow interesting applications to begin to be deployed as it is embraced by existing service providers.
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We are simply encouraging policymakers to take a broader view of this set of problems that looks beyond this level of competition to include the rest of the infrastructure that the consumer will need to become a full citizen on the Nit. Policymalcers should see that more is involved than allowing content providers open access to consumers or considering what the competitive trade-offs should be between allowing cable systems to offer dialtone and telephone companies to offer video.
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