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An Internet World, the Cable Industry, and the Future
Washington Metropolitan Cable Club
The Information Revolution in Mid-StreamDouglas E. Van Houweling, President and CEO
University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development
Overview History & Background Today’s Internet Applications Information -> Collaboration Technology Distributed Organizations Intangible Value Implications for an Internet World Implications for the Cable Industry
Internet History
ARPAnet origins 1987-NSFnet 1995 -- Privatization 1996 -- Internet2
• 34 > 127 research university members/33 corporate members
1996 -- Next Generation Internet• Clinton/Gore Administration
Research andDevelopment
Commercialization
Partnerships
Privatization
NSFNET
Internet2, Abilene, vBNSESNET, NREN, DREN
ARPAnet
gigabittestbeds
ActiveNetswirelessWDM
SprintLinkInternetMCI Agency
NetworksANS
InteroperableHigh PerformanceResearch &EducationNetworks
21st CenturyNetworking
Quality of Service(QoS)
The Challenge of Today’s Internet
Growing at over 15% per month Challenges to higher education
• The “world wide wait”• Human interaction awkward
• Virtual meetings and seminars
• Shared authoring
• Browsing publications
• Distributed large scale computing and data base efforts not feasible
Internet2 Goals
Enable new generation of applications
Re-create leading edge R&E network capability
Transfer capability to the global production Internet
Applications and Engineering
ApplicationsApplications
EngineeringEngineering
EnablesEnables MotivateMotivate
Technology Single-Lane Road ->
Multi-lane Superhighway• Special-purpose lanes• Access control• Tolls where appropriate
End-to-end performance guarantees• Quality of Service across multiple providers
Support for Internet-based broadcast Authentication & security Faster circuits
vBNS & Abilene Leading edge connectivity for Internet2 Speeds ranging from 60 million to 1 billion
characters/second very high performance Backbone Network
Service (vBNS) -- sponsored by NSF and MCI Abilene sponsored by the University
Corporation for Advanced Internet Development, with support from Qwest, Nortel, and Cisco
Corporate Members/Partners*Corporate Members/Partners*• 3Com*• Advanced Network & Services*• Alcatel• Apple• Ameritech• AT&T*• Bay Networks*• Bell Atlantic• Bellcore• Cabletron*• Cisco Systems*• Deutsche Telekom• Digital Equipment Corporation• FORE Systems*• GTE Internetworking• IBM*
• 3Com*• Advanced Network & Services*• Alcatel• Apple• Ameritech• AT&T*• Bay Networks*• Bell Atlantic• Bellcore• Cabletron*• Cisco Systems*• Deutsche Telekom• Digital Equipment Corporation• FORE Systems*• GTE Internetworking• IBM*
• Lucent Technologies*• MCI Communications*• Newbridge Networks*• Nokia• Nortel*• Novell• Packet Engines• Perot Systems• Qwest Communications*• SBC Technology Resources• Siemens• Sprint• StarBurst Communications*• Sun Microsystems• Torrent Technologies• William Communications
• Lucent Technologies*• MCI Communications*• Newbridge Networks*• Nokia• Nortel*• Novell• Packet Engines• Perot Systems• Qwest Communications*• SBC Technology Resources• Siemens• Sprint• StarBurst Communications*• Sun Microsystems• Torrent Technologies• William Communications
Trend --Information -> Collaboration
Today’s Internet focuses on access to and delivery of information and entertainment
Tomorrow’s Internet will support human collaboration in an information and media rich environment
Dramatic implications for the cable industry
Intangible Value
The world is moving from an economy based on tangibles to one based on intangibles• slower growth in physical flows of
material goods & products• faster growth of ethereal streams of
data, images, and symbols Supporting human interaction less
constrained by geography & time
Distributed Organizations VISA International The Internet Higher education All created to convey intangible value All dependent on information and
flexible interorganizational and interpersonal relationships
Implications for an Internet World The future will undoubtedly be different
than we can predict, but we can observe a powerful confluence:• intangible value represented in and
transportable through information technology
• increasing success of distributed global organizations and communities
• an Internet which supports a world built on human collaboration
Electronic Commerce Explosion
Trends and implications• Enabling Online Business• Applied Encryption Technology Services• Multimedia and Video Service• Embraced by Industry: eg: Automotive
Network Exchange• Internet Transactions projected at over
$300 Billion by 2002
Internet and Multimedia
A new world of advanced communications• Internet multicast “video”, telephony
and radio• Transport of Internet traffic on cable,
direct broadcast satellite; radio and broadcast TV
• Real-time quality of service support• Mutual Reinforcement among media
(print, TV, radio, web, email)
Opportunity for the Cable Industry
• Significant applications and engineering breakthroughs
• Cable modems, digital TV, Web TV, Internet phone
• New application opportunities• Multimedia impact• Impact on delivery of content• Broad impact of technology transfer
and market making
Are We Ready? We still think about mass media, not
personal communication We still measure the economy in
terms of tangibles We still assume organizations are
hierarchical Is government, education, industry
collaboration the answer?