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NII Evolution - Technology Deployment Plans, Challenges, and Opportunities: AT&T Perspective
NII Evolution - Technology Deployment Plans, Challenges, and Opportunities: AT&T Perspective
Pages 397-404
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~ briefly review the current state of information infrastructure in terms of certain key attributes, outline AT&T's key new technology deployment initiatives, and recommend actions by the public sector to facilitate faster, smoother evolution of the Nit. BACKGROUND Several attributes of emerging communications networks offer promise for supporting new modes of collaboration, information access, and exchange: .
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Data messaging, or e-mail, is now widely used in corporations and is used by the more technically oriented consumers. Substantial progress needs to be made to provide simplified user Interfaces, build user awareness, and provide user training, before e-mai} can become a commonly accepted form of information exchange for a broad cross section of society.
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Examples of interfaces that are open today are the customer premises device interface to local telephone networks, and local telephone network interfaces to long distance communications networks. Typically closed interfaces today include the cable network interface to set-top devices at homes, and the cable network Interface to electronic content or program~riing.
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Taken in combination why a variety of Internet services for businesses and consumers that we wall be offering soon, these represent a service creation platform for a new generation of data and multimedia services. Consumer Service and Product Initiatives and Challenges The description above outlines some of the emerging communications service options for businesses to enter the multimedia networking era.
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The first is Me rapid growth and digitalization of wireless communications networks. AT&T Wireless, created by our acquisition of McCaw Cellular, is investing substantially in creating an equal access mechanism for wireless access to all long distance carriers; in expanding the reach of wireless services to serve major markets nationwide; and In expanding the digital capability in our wireless access network and enhancing its ability to serve more users with higher service quality.
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ADSL's key advantage is that it can bring video services with some interactivity to users without replacing the embedded twisted-pair loop, since the installation and changes occur et the ends of the loop, ADSL devices can be disconnected from one user and moved to another user as, for example, when the first ADSL user decides to upgrade to a higher bandwidth medium such as fiber or fiber-coax access. Hybrid fiber-coax~al cable combinations are gaining In popularity for new deployments The reasons for their populant:y for new deployment are that they offer abundant bandwidth capable of supporting integrated communications and entertainment applications; are comparable in initial deployment cost to new twisted pair copper access deployment when done on a large scale; and, by offering multiple services in an integrated
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The public sector needs to remove today's overt and subtle impediments to the deployment and interconnection of competitive local exchange and access capabilities for consumers and businesses. The transition from the monopoly provision of local telecommunications services to an environment of multiple competing and interconnecting providers needs to be facilitated by legislators requiring the removal of constraints such as franchise restnctions, lack of interconnect points and standards, exchange resale prohibitions, lack of local number portability, and numerous over impediments.
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As a major user of Me NIl, We public sector needs to adopt open industry standards and leverage its considerable market power as major commercial users would, to advance innovation. It should avoid creating special networks and requirements vv~out compelling reasons, as such efforts drain resources from Me mainstream development of products and services In the commercial marketplace.
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