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Perfect Storms, Internet Economics, and the
Future of the Internet
David MeyerNANOG 41
October 2007
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Agenda
• Background and Context
• So what is the “Perfect Storm”?
• Three Pieces of the Puzzle
• A Few Considerations
• Discussion
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Background & Context
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Background & Context
• I’d been spending a lot of time around things like
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Background & Context
• I’d been spending a lot of time around things like
• NGN and IMS
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Background & Context
• I’d been spending a lot of time around things like
• NGN and IMS
• http://www.1-4-5.net/~dmm/talks/NANOG33/ims
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Background & Context
• I’d been spending a lot of time around things like
• NGN and IMS
• http://www.1-4-5.net/~dmm/talks/NANOG33/ims
• And studying complexity
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Background & Context
• I’d been spending a lot of time around things like
• NGN and IMS
• http://www.1-4-5.net/~dmm/talks/NANOG33/ims
• And studying complexity
• http://www.1-4-5.net/~dmm/talks/NANOG26/complexity_panel
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Background & Context
• I’d been spending a lot of time around things like
• NGN and IMS
• http://www.1-4-5.net/~dmm/talks/NANOG33/ims
• And studying complexity
• http://www.1-4-5.net/~dmm/talks/NANOG26/complexity_panel
• RFC 3439
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Background & Context
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Background & Context• So I started wondering where all this is
going
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Background & Context• So I started wondering where all this is
going
• And how technologies like IMS (or more generally, NGN) interacted with the Internet Architecture
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Background & Context• So I started wondering where all this is
going
• And how technologies like IMS (or more generally, NGN) interacted with the Internet Architecture
• And what the implications of the growing number of policy based networks really was
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Background & Context• So I started wondering where all this is
going
• And how technologies like IMS (or more generally, NGN) interacted with the Internet Architecture
• And what the implications of the growing number of policy based networks really was
• And in particular, I wondered about the implications of tying (perceived) high margin application revenue directly to the packet transport
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Background & Context• So I started wondering where all this is
going
• And how technologies like IMS (or more generally, NGN) interacted with the Internet Architecture
• And what the implications of the growing number of policy based networks really was
• And in particular, I wondered about the implications of tying (perceived) high margin application revenue directly to the packet transport
• We’ll see why this is an interesting question in a moment
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Background & Context
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Background & Context• And as you might imagine (given my
background/sensibilities), I was skeptical about what those technologies might mean for the Internet
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Background & Context• And as you might imagine (given my
background/sensibilities), I was skeptical about what those technologies might mean for the Internet
• In analyzing the space a bit, I proposed a scenario that became known as "Meyer's Telecommunications Perfect Storm", or TPS
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Background & Context• And as you might imagine (given my
background/sensibilities), I was skeptical about what those technologies might mean for the Internet
• In analyzing the space a bit, I proposed a scenario that became known as "Meyer's Telecommunications Perfect Storm", or TPS
• “You name it, you own it”
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Background & Context• And as you might imagine (given my
background/sensibilities), I was skeptical about what those technologies might mean for the Internet
• In analyzing the space a bit, I proposed a scenario that became known as "Meyer's Telecommunications Perfect Storm", or TPS
• “You name it, you own it”
• The rest of this talk reviews the TPS scenario and its implications
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What Exactly is the TPS?
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What Exactly is the TPS?• First, TPS is deeply multi-disciplinary
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What Exactly is the TPS?• First, TPS is deeply multi-disciplinary
• Involves economics, public policy, and the Internet technology
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What Exactly is the TPS?• First, TPS is deeply multi-disciplinary
• Involves economics, public policy, and the Internet technology
• TPS is based on the Internet Architecture
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What Exactly is the TPS?• First, TPS is deeply multi-disciplinary
• Involves economics, public policy, and the Internet technology
• TPS is based on the Internet Architecture
• In particular, the end-to-end (e2e) principle
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What Exactly is the TPS?• First, TPS is deeply multi-disciplinary
• Involves economics, public policy, and the Internet technology
• TPS is based on the Internet Architecture
• In particular, the end-to-end (e2e) principle
• We can argue (like everyone else) about what the e2e principle actually states...
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What Exactly is the TPS?• First, TPS is deeply multi-disciplinary
• Involves economics, public policy, and the Internet technology
• TPS is based on the Internet Architecture
• In particular, the end-to-end (e2e) principle
• We can argue (like everyone else) about what the e2e principle actually states...
• http://www.chiappa.net/~jnc/tech/end_end.html
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What Exactly is the TPS?• First, TPS is deeply multi-disciplinary
• Involves economics, public policy, and the Internet technology
• TPS is based on the Internet Architecture
• In particular, the end-to-end (e2e) principle
• We can argue (like everyone else) about what the e2e principle actually states...
• http://www.chiappa.net/~jnc/tech/end_end.html
• However, the key feature of the e2e principle here is that it implies that
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What Exactly is the TPS?• First, TPS is deeply multi-disciplinary
• Involves economics, public policy, and the Internet technology
• TPS is based on the Internet Architecture
• In particular, the end-to-end (e2e) principle
• We can argue (like everyone else) about what the e2e principle actually states...
• http://www.chiappa.net/~jnc/tech/end_end.html
• However, the key feature of the e2e principle here is that it implies that
• IP packet carriage is a commodity business
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What Exactly is the TPS?• First, TPS is deeply multi-disciplinary
• Involves economics, public policy, and the Internet technology
• TPS is based on the Internet Architecture
• In particular, the end-to-end (e2e) principle
• We can argue (like everyone else) about what the e2e principle actually states...
• http://www.chiappa.net/~jnc/tech/end_end.html
• However, the key feature of the e2e principle here is that it implies that
• IP packet carriage is a commodity business
• This conclusion “may” be considered controversial by some
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What Exactly is the TPS?
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What Exactly is the TPS?
• TPS is based on three basic ideas
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What Exactly is the TPS?
• TPS is based on three basic ideas
• Someone learns how to run a low margin yet profitable packet carriage business
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What Exactly is the TPS?
• TPS is based on three basic ideas
• Someone learns how to run a low margin yet profitable packet carriage business
• Access monopolies are weakened or cease to exist
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What Exactly is the TPS?
• TPS is based on three basic ideas
• Someone learns how to run a low margin yet profitable packet carriage business
• Access monopolies are weakened or cease to exist
• A set of peer-to-peer applications emerge that co-opt the incumbents revenue streams
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What Exactly is the TPS?
• TPS is based on three basic ideas
• Someone learns how to run a low margin yet profitable packet carriage business
• Access monopolies are weakened or cease to exist
• A set of peer-to-peer applications emerge that co-opt the incumbents revenue streams
• Let’s look at each of these in detail...
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Low Margin yet Profitable Packet Carriage Business
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Low Margin yet Profitable Packet Carriage Business
• First, remember that the hypothesis here is that packet carriage will always be a low margin business as a direct consequence of the e2e principle
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Low Margin yet Profitable Packet Carriage Business
• First, remember that the hypothesis here is that packet carriage will always be a low margin business as a direct consequence of the e2e principle
• Note that many providers are already building "simple" networks in an attempt to lower OPEX (but aside: “CAPEX is back”)
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Low Margin yet Profitable Packet Carriage Business
• First, remember that the hypothesis here is that packet carriage will always be a low margin business as a direct consequence of the e2e principle
• Note that many providers are already building "simple" networks in an attempt to lower OPEX (but aside: “CAPEX is back”)
• “deconvergence “
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Low Margin yet Profitable Packet Carriage Business
• First, remember that the hypothesis here is that packet carriage will always be a low margin business as a direct consequence of the e2e principle
• Note that many providers are already building "simple" networks in an attempt to lower OPEX (but aside: “CAPEX is back”)
• “deconvergence “
• In any event, lower OPEX is something you'll need if you want to get to a profitable low margin business
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Low Margin yet Profitable Packet Carriage Business
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Low Margin yet Profitable Packet Carriage Business
• There is also the question as to whether we're optimizing these networks for the "right" thing in the first place...
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Low Margin yet Profitable Packet Carriage Business
• There is also the question as to whether we're optimizing these networks for the "right" thing in the first place...
• 80/20? (Or is it more like 95/5?)
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Low Margin yet Profitable Packet Carriage Business
• There is also the question as to whether we're optimizing these networks for the "right" thing in the first place...
• 80/20? (Or is it more like 95/5?)
• Consider convergence
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Low Margin yet Profitable Packet Carriage Business
• There is also the question as to whether we're optimizing these networks for the "right" thing in the first place...
• 80/20? (Or is it more like 95/5?)
• Consider convergence
• In the holy grail sense
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Low Margin yet Profitable Packet Carriage Business
• There is also the question as to whether we're optimizing these networks for the "right" thing in the first place...
• 80/20? (Or is it more like 95/5?)
• Consider convergence
• In the holy grail sense
• See e.g., http://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2006-02/congconverged.html
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Low Margin yet Profitable Packet Carriage Business
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Low Margin yet Profitable Packet Carriage Business
• Lighting (even inexpensive) fiber is still expensive
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Low Margin yet Profitable Packet Carriage Business
• Lighting (even inexpensive) fiber is still expensive
• OPEX, however, dominated margins
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Low Margin yet Profitable Packet Carriage Business
• Lighting (even inexpensive) fiber is still expensive
• OPEX, however, dominated margins
• But now CAPEX is back. Why you ask?
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Low Margin yet Profitable Packet Carriage Business
• Lighting (even inexpensive) fiber is still expensive
• OPEX, however, dominated margins
• But now CAPEX is back. Why you ask?
• And we need to watch out that our economic models are not based on "glut economics" or the availability of "distressed assets"
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Low Margin yet Profitable Packet Carriage Business
• Lighting (even inexpensive) fiber is still expensive
• OPEX, however, dominated margins
• But now CAPEX is back. Why you ask?
• And we need to watch out that our economic models are not based on "glut economics" or the availability of "distressed assets"
• But even that is changing (rapidly)
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Low Margin yet Profitable Packet Carriage Business
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Low Margin yet Profitable Packet Carriage Business
• So what this is really about is...
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Low Margin yet Profitable Packet Carriage Business
• So what this is really about is...
• The convolution of the Internet technology with the economics of IP packet transport
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Low Margin yet Profitable Packet Carriage Business
• So what this is really about is...
• The convolution of the Internet technology with the economics of IP packet transport
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Low Margin yet Profitable Packet Carriage Business
• So what this is really about is...
• The convolution of the Internet technology with the economics of IP packet transport
• And BTW, in case you were wondering, we understand the economics of all of this about as well as we understand complexity
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Low Margin yet Profitable Packet Carriage Business
• So what this is really about is...
• The convolution of the Internet technology with the economics of IP packet transport
• And BTW, in case you were wondering, we understand the economics of all of this about as well as we understand complexity
• So we need to encourage research in this area
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Aside: On Commodity Businesses
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Aside: On Commodity Businesses
• Commodities tend toward low margins
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Aside: On Commodity Businesses
• Commodities tend toward low margins
• In particular, in those cases in which the incremental cost of providing a unit of the commodity goes to zero is the point at which it makes sense to price your commodity just below the price set by your competitor(s)
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Aside: On Commodity Businesses
• Commodities tend toward low margins
• In particular, in those cases in which the incremental cost of providing a unit of the commodity goes to zero is the point at which it makes sense to price your commodity just below the price set by your competitor(s)
• What is the incremental cost of forwarding a packet in the core of the Internet?
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Aside: On Commodity Businesses
• Commodities tend toward low margins
• In particular, in those cases in which the incremental cost of providing a unit of the commodity goes to zero is the point at which it makes sense to price your commodity just below the price set by your competitor(s)
• What is the incremental cost of forwarding a packet in the core of the Internet?
• In any event, a "race to the bottom" ensues
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Aside: On Commodity Businesses
• Commodities tend toward low margins
• In particular, in those cases in which the incremental cost of providing a unit of the commodity goes to zero is the point at which it makes sense to price your commodity just below the price set by your competitor(s)
• What is the incremental cost of forwarding a packet in the core of the Internet?
• In any event, a "race to the bottom" ensues
• Which is exactly what the SP industry has experienced over the past few years
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On Commodity Businesses
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On Commodity Businesses• A classic commodity also has the property that
the incremental cost of providing the good or service approaches its marginal cost of production
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On Commodity Businesses• A classic commodity also has the property that
the incremental cost of providing the good or service approaches its marginal cost of production
• So what is the marginal cost of forwarding an IP packet in the core of the Internet?
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On Commodity Businesses• A classic commodity also has the property that
the incremental cost of providing the good or service approaches its marginal cost of production
• So what is the marginal cost of forwarding an IP packet in the core of the Internet?
• Well, there are high fixed capital costs (routers, circuits, etc)
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On Commodity Businesses• A classic commodity also has the property that
the incremental cost of providing the good or service approaches its marginal cost of production
• So what is the marginal cost of forwarding an IP packet in the core of the Internet?
• Well, there are high fixed capital costs (routers, circuits, etc)
• and high OPEX
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On Commodity Businesses• A classic commodity also has the property that
the incremental cost of providing the good or service approaches its marginal cost of production
• So what is the marginal cost of forwarding an IP packet in the core of the Internet?
• Well, there are high fixed capital costs (routers, circuits, etc)
• and high OPEX
• and very small marginal cost
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On Commodity Businesses• A classic commodity also has the property that
the incremental cost of providing the good or service approaches its marginal cost of production
• So what is the marginal cost of forwarding an IP packet in the core of the Internet?
• Well, there are high fixed capital costs (routers, circuits, etc)
• and high OPEX
• and very small marginal cost
• i.e., the incremental cost of forwarding a packet
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On Commodity Businesses
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On Commodity Businesses
• So what is the marginal cost of forwarding an IP packet in the core of the Internet?
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On Commodity Businesses
• So what is the marginal cost of forwarding an IP packet in the core of the Internet?
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On Commodity Businesses
• So what is the marginal cost of forwarding an IP packet in the core of the Internet?
• Answer: Approaching zero
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On Commodity Businesses
• So what is the marginal cost of forwarding an IP packet in the core of the Internet?
• Answer: Approaching zero
• So what does this say about pricing power that an SP has in the market?
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On Economic Realities1
1Chart courtesy kc claffy
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Summary: Low Margin Yet Profitable Packet Carriage
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Summary: Low Margin Yet Profitable Packet Carriage
• The Internet Architecture, and in particular, the end-to-end principle, suggests that packet transport is a low margin, commodity business
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Summary: Low Margin Yet Profitable Packet Carriage
• The Internet Architecture, and in particular, the end-to-end principle, suggests that packet transport is a low margin, commodity business
• If you buy this, then one needs to question whether “policy-based” architectures can ever yield the higher margin transport infrastructures they promise
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Access Monopolies are Weakened/Cease to Exist
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Access Monopolies are Weakened/Cease to Exist
• Say, due to the emergence of technologies like WiMAX
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Access Monopolies are Weakened/Cease to Exist
• Say, due to the emergence of technologies like WiMAX
• or just competition in the access
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Access Monopolies are Weakened/Cease to Exist
• Say, due to the emergence of technologies like WiMAX
• or just competition in the access
• Truth in advertising #1: This is controversial (shocking)
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Access Monopolies are Weakened/Cease to Exist
• Say, due to the emergence of technologies like WiMAX
• or just competition in the access
• Truth in advertising #1: This is controversial (shocking)
• Truth in advertising #2: We still don't have a (inexpensive) wireless technology that could deliver 100s (or even 10s) of HDTV channels (in the access)
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Access Monopolies are Weakened/Cease to Exist
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Access Monopolies are Weakened/Cease to Exist• Competition makes it much harder (impossible?)
to profitably field policy-based access networks
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Access Monopolies are Weakened/Cease to Exist• Competition makes it much harder (impossible?)
to profitably field policy-based access networks
• Why? Well, consider the cost (OPEX) of running one of these networks
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Access Monopolies are Weakened/Cease to Exist• Competition makes it much harder (impossible?)
to profitably field policy-based access networks
• Why? Well, consider the cost (OPEX) of running one of these networks
• and given the complexity, its reliability
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Access Monopolies are Weakened/Cease to Exist• Competition makes it much harder (impossible?)
to profitably field policy-based access networks
• Why? Well, consider the cost (OPEX) of running one of these networks
• and given the complexity, its reliability
• And there is no way your SP is going to be able to innovate at the same rate as the entire Internet
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Access Monopolies are Weakened/Cease to Exist• Competition makes it much harder (impossible?)
to profitably field policy-based access networks
• Why? Well, consider the cost (OPEX) of running one of these networks
• and given the complexity, its reliability
• And there is no way your SP is going to be able to innovate at the same rate as the entire Internet
• Consider the success of AOL or other attempted "walled-garden" providers
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Access Monopolies are Weakened/Cease to Exist• Competition makes it much harder (impossible?)
to profitably field policy-based access networks
• Why? Well, consider the cost (OPEX) of running one of these networks
• and given the complexity, its reliability
• And there is no way your SP is going to be able to innovate at the same rate as the entire Internet
• Consider the success of AOL or other attempted "walled-garden" providers
• But then, what about IMS and the like?
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Access Monopolies are Weakened/Cease to Exist
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Access Monopolies are Weakened/Cease to Exist
• Bottom line
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Access Monopolies are Weakened/Cease to Exist
• Bottom line
• Policy-based networks cost more to build and operate, are less reliable, and are (ironically) less "service rich"
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Access Monopolies are Weakened/Cease to Exist
• Bottom line
• Policy-based networks cost more to build and operate, are less reliable, and are (ironically) less "service rich"
• And who buys that if there is choice?
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Access Monopolies are Weakened/Cease to Exist
• Bottom line
• Policy-based networks cost more to build and operate, are less reliable, and are (ironically) less "service rich"
• And who buys that if there is choice?
• And we can talk about the "bundling argument" if we wind up with time...
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Access Monopolies are Weakened/Cease to Exist
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Access Monopolies are Weakened/Cease to Exist
• So what this is really about is...
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Access Monopolies are Weakened/Cease to Exist
• So what this is really about is...
• The convolution of the Internet technology with public policy
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Access Monopolies are Weakened/Cease to Exist
• So what this is really about is...
• The convolution of the Internet technology with public policy
• Related to what is (now) being called Net Neutrality
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Access Monopolies are Weakened/Cease to Exist
• So what this is really about is...
• The convolution of the Internet technology with public policy
• Related to what is (now) being called Net Neutrality
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wikiNetwork_neutrality
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Aside: Wall-GardensWhat’s the Problem?
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Aside: Wall-GardensWhat’s the Problem?
• Innovation on the edges forces walled garden providers to let the new service through
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Aside: Wall-GardensWhat’s the Problem?
• Innovation on the edges forces walled garden providers to let the new service through
• Their customers demand it (consider ports 80/443)
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Aside: Wall-GardensWhat’s the Problem?
• Innovation on the edges forces walled garden providers to let the new service through
• Their customers demand it (consider ports 80/443)
• This is part of the reason why the existence of competition in the access is a critical component of all of this
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Aside: Wall-GardensWhat’s the Problem?
• Innovation on the edges forces walled garden providers to let the new service through
• Their customers demand it (consider ports 80/443)
• This is part of the reason why the existence of competition in the access is a critical component of all of this
• So now everything can be tunneled over those (now open) ports
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Aside: Wall-GardensWhat’s the Problem?
• Innovation on the edges forces walled garden providers to let the new service through
• Their customers demand it (consider ports 80/443)
• This is part of the reason why the existence of competition in the access is a critical component of all of this
• So now everything can be tunneled over those (now open) ports
• e.g., skype
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Aside: Wall-GardensWhat’s the Problem?
• Innovation on the edges forces walled garden providers to let the new service through
• Their customers demand it (consider ports 80/443)
• This is part of the reason why the existence of competition in the access is a critical component of all of this
• So now everything can be tunneled over those (now open) ports
• e.g., skype
• plus encryption + anonimzation + lots of app developers
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Wall-Gardens, cont.
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Wall-Gardens, cont.• And BTW, you can't really find this stuff with, say,
a DPI engine
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Wall-Gardens, cont.• And BTW, you can't really find this stuff with, say,
a DPI engine
• Why, you ask?
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Wall-Gardens, cont.• And BTW, you can't really find this stuff with, say,
a DPI engine
• Why, you ask?
• Well, because while you may be able to find the signature (e.g.) of encrypted voice (today), you basically have to block everything that you can't identify
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Wall-Gardens, cont.• And BTW, you can't really find this stuff with, say,
a DPI engine
• Why, you ask?
• Well, because while you may be able to find the signature (e.g.) of encrypted voice (today), you basically have to block everything that you can't identify
• The implication is that most applications that are "over-the-top" must be treated by default logic
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Wall-Gardens, cont.• And BTW, you can't really find this stuff with, say,
a DPI engine
• Why, you ask?
• Well, because while you may be able to find the signature (e.g.) of encrypted voice (today), you basically have to block everything that you can't identify
• The implication is that most applications that are "over-the-top" must be treated by default logic
• Conclusion: You can't effectively stop over-the-top services
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Wall-Gardens, cont.• And BTW, you can't really find this stuff with, say,
a DPI engine
• Why, you ask?
• Well, because while you may be able to find the signature (e.g.) of encrypted voice (today), you basically have to block everything that you can't identify
• The implication is that most applications that are "over-the-top" must be treated by default logic
• Conclusion: You can't effectively stop over-the-top services
• If there is competition in the access
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Wall-Gardens, cont.• And BTW, you can't really find this stuff with, say,
a DPI engine
• Why, you ask?
• Well, because while you may be able to find the signature (e.g.) of encrypted voice (today), you basically have to block everything that you can't identify
• The implication is that most applications that are "over-the-top" must be treated by default logic
• Conclusion: You can't effectively stop over-the-top services
• If there is competition in the access
• This is a classic arms race...but we’re the arms dealer
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Applications Emerge that Target Incumbent Revenue Streams
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Applications Emerge that Target Incumbent Revenue Streams• Third piece of this puzzle is that a set of
peer-to-peer (p2p) applications emerge that attack the incumbents revenue streams
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Applications Emerge that Target Incumbent Revenue Streams• Third piece of this puzzle is that a set of
peer-to-peer (p2p) applications emerge that attack the incumbents revenue streams
• "attack" in the capture-the-revenue sense (contrast DDOS)
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Applications Emerge that Target Incumbent Revenue Streams• Third piece of this puzzle is that a set of
peer-to-peer (p2p) applications emerge that attack the incumbents revenue streams
• "attack" in the capture-the-revenue sense (contrast DDOS)
• Key: decentralization
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Applications Emerge that Target Incumbent Revenue Streams• Third piece of this puzzle is that a set of
peer-to-peer (p2p) applications emerge that attack the incumbents revenue streams
• "attack" in the capture-the-revenue sense (contrast DDOS)
• Key: decentralization
• Starting with voice
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Applications Emerge that Target Incumbent Revenue Streams• Third piece of this puzzle is that a set of
peer-to-peer (p2p) applications emerge that attack the incumbents revenue streams
• "attack" in the capture-the-revenue sense (contrast DDOS)
• Key: decentralization
• Starting with voice
• Large easily attacked revenue stream
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Applications Emerge that Target Incumbent Revenue Streams• Third piece of this puzzle is that a set of
peer-to-peer (p2p) applications emerge that attack the incumbents revenue streams
• "attack" in the capture-the-revenue sense (contrast DDOS)
• Key: decentralization
• Starting with voice
• Large easily attacked revenue stream
• cf. Vonage (or what’s left of it), skype, etc...
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Applications Emerge that Target Incumbent Revenue Streams• Third piece of this puzzle is that a set of
peer-to-peer (p2p) applications emerge that attack the incumbents revenue streams
• "attack" in the capture-the-revenue sense (contrast DDOS)
• Key: decentralization
• Starting with voice
• Large easily attacked revenue stream
• cf. Vonage (or what’s left of it), skype, etc...
• But also video, FMC, presence, IM, ...
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Applications Emerge that Target Incumbent Revenue Streams• So this is about a convolution of the Internet
technology and its end-to-end nature and the creativity it unleashed, with traditional carrier architectures and business models
• In particular, while traditional carrier networks were vertically integrated (the network was the application), the Internet is horizontally integrated
• This has the effect of making many of the services the vertically integrated networks provided into applications on the Internet
• Canonical example: Voice
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IPv6, The Perfect Storm Driver?
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IPv6, The Perfect Storm Driver?
• So what happens if the IPv6 “everything networked” dream becomes reality, and everything is connected to the network?
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IPv6, The Perfect Storm Driver?
• So what happens if the IPv6 “everything networked” dream becomes reality, and everything is connected to the network?
• How much will I be willing to pay to have my teapot online?
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IPv6, The Perfect Storm Driver?
• So what happens if the IPv6 “everything networked” dream becomes reality, and everything is connected to the network?
• How much will I be willing to pay to have my teapot online?
• My guess: Not much
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IPv6, The Perfect Storm Driver?
• So what happens if the IPv6 “everything networked” dream becomes reality, and everything is connected to the network?
• How much will I be willing to pay to have my teapot online?
• My guess: Not much
• I’ll just want someone to provide cheap transport for my 1000s of network connected gadgets
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IPv6, The Perfect Storm Driver?
• So what happens if the IPv6 “everything networked” dream becomes reality, and everything is connected to the network?
• How much will I be willing to pay to have my teapot online?
• My guess: Not much
• I’ll just want someone to provide cheap transport for my 1000s of network connected gadgets
• And someone will provide that service
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IPv6, The Perfect Storm Driver?
• So what happens if the IPv6 “everything networked” dream becomes reality, and everything is connected to the network?
• How much will I be willing to pay to have my teapot online?
• My guess: Not much
• I’ll just want someone to provide cheap transport for my 1000s of network connected gadgets
• And someone will provide that service
• So is IPv6 really a perfect storm driver?
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Summary• So, what happens if we wind up with...
• Low margin but profitable packet transport
• Emergence of "new world players"
• No (or weakened) access monopolies
• Competition and/or new technologies
• Large scale co-opting of traditional service provider revenue streams
• p2p (or other) applications target revenue
• Is this really an “if”?
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Summary
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Summary
• How many of these three basic conditions are already occurring?
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Summary
• How many of these three basic conditions are already occurring?
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Summary
• How many of these three basic conditions are already occurring?
• And finally, what if we can’t find a way to make a commodity internet profitable?
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So What’s An ISP To Do?
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So What’s An ISP To Do? • Stop trying to make the packet network into
a circuit network?
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So What’s An ISP To Do? • Stop trying to make the packet network into
a circuit network?
• But more seriously...
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So What’s An ISP To Do? • Stop trying to make the packet network into
a circuit network?
• But more seriously...
• Be realistic about the complexity-opex tradeoffs
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So What’s An ISP To Do? • Stop trying to make the packet network into
a circuit network?
• But more seriously...
• Be realistic about the complexity-opex tradeoffs
• “Be Rational” -- Vijay Gill
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So What’s An ISP To Do? • Stop trying to make the packet network into
a circuit network?
• But more seriously...
• Be realistic about the complexity-opex tradeoffs
• “Be Rational” -- Vijay Gill
• We need better tools here (we have little or no analytic capability in this space)
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So What’s An ISP To Do? • Stop trying to make the packet network into
a circuit network?
• But more seriously...
• Be realistic about the complexity-opex tradeoffs
• “Be Rational” -- Vijay Gill
• We need better tools here (we have little or no analytic capability in this space)
• Keep in mind that the governmental intervention/regulation is the “trump card” here
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So What’s An ISP To Do? • Stop trying to make the packet network into
a circuit network?
• But more seriously...
• Be realistic about the complexity-opex tradeoffs
• “Be Rational” -- Vijay Gill
• We need better tools here (we have little or no analytic capability in this space)
• Keep in mind that the governmental intervention/regulation is the “trump card” here
• Work with the vendors and the open source community to build platforms that have the needed properties
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What Should Vendors Be Doing?
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What Should Vendors Be Doing?
• The problem is thorney as vendors want to maintain margins
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What Should Vendors Be Doing?
• The problem is thorney as vendors want to maintain margins
• Even if the perfect storm scenario materializes, vendors will able to preserve advantageous margin structures for some customers
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What Should Vendors Be Doing?
• The problem is thorney as vendors want to maintain margins
• Even if the perfect storm scenario materializes, vendors will able to preserve advantageous margin structures for some customers
• However, if what evolves is the need for low margin interfaces (perhaps riding the “ethernet cost/performance curve”), then vendors may need to hedge against their margin strategies
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So Where To From Here?
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So Where To From Here?• Stop trying to make the packet network into
a circuit network :-)
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So Where To From Here?• Stop trying to make the packet network into
a circuit network :-)
• But more seriously...
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So Where To From Here?• Stop trying to make the packet network into
a circuit network :-)
• But more seriously...
• All of this is just a (the?) scenario in which the e2e Internet that we all know and love continues to grow and thrive
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So Where To From Here?• Stop trying to make the packet network into
a circuit network :-)
• But more seriously...
• All of this is just a (the?) scenario in which the e2e Internet that we all know and love continues to grow and thrive
• Contrast with the "value-added-transport" position
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So Where To From Here?• Stop trying to make the packet network into
a circuit network :-)
• But more seriously...
• All of this is just a (the?) scenario in which the e2e Internet that we all know and love continues to grow and thrive
• Contrast with the "value-added-transport" position
• Noting that everything is Over-the-Top on the Internet
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So Where To From Here?• Stop trying to make the packet network into
a circuit network :-)
• But more seriously...
• All of this is just a (the?) scenario in which the e2e Internet that we all know and love continues to grow and thrive
• Contrast with the "value-added-transport" position
• Noting that everything is Over-the-Top on the Internet
• Continued understanding of our evolving needs
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So Where To From Here?• Stop trying to make the packet network into
a circuit network :-)
• But more seriously...
• All of this is just a (the?) scenario in which the e2e Internet that we all know and love continues to grow and thrive
• Contrast with the "value-added-transport" position
• Noting that everything is Over-the-Top on the Internet
• Continued understanding of our evolving needs
• And of course, continued smart and innovative engineering on our part
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A Few Final Thoughts• We need to be teaching and informing the
community at large
• Where "community" includes SPs, enterprise operators, content providers, researchers, vendors, ...
• A bad (tm) outcome would be to find ourselves in a situation in which
• Service Providers can't be profitable enough to continue bandwidth upgrade cycles
• Service Providers then attempt to choke off innovation for (perceived) self-preservation
• via legislative/regulatory action, and/or by technical means
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Questions/Comments?
Thanks!