I agree we should all be telling the FCC that broadband is fiber to the home. If we spend all kinds of $$ to build a 1.5M/s connection to homes, it's outdated before we even finish.
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Fred Baker<f...@cisco.com> wrote: > If it's about stimulus money, I'm in favor of saying that broadband implies > fiber to the home. That would provide all sorts of stimuli to the economy - > infrastructure, equipment sales, jobs digging ditches, and so on. I could > pretty quickly argue myself into suggesting special favors for deployment of > DNSSEC, multicast, and IPv6. As in, use the stimulus money to propel a leap > forward, not just waste it. > > On Aug 26, 2009, at 9:44 AM, Carlos Alcantar wrote: > >> I think the big push to get the fcc to define broadband is highly based >> on the rus/ntia setting definitions of what broadband is. If any anyone >> has been fallowing the rus/ntia they are the one handing out all the >> stimulus infrastructure grant loan money. So there are a lot of >> political reasons to make the definition of broadband a bit slower than >> one would think. I guess it doesn't hurt that the larger lec's with the >> older infrastructure are shelling out the money to lobby to make sure >> the definition stays as low as can be. They don't want to see the gov >> funding there competition. Just my 2 cents. >> >> -carlos >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Ted Fischer [mailto:t...@fred.net] >> Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 8:50 AM >> To: nanog@nanog.org >> Subject: Re: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband >> >> >> >> Paul Timmins wrote: >>> >>> Fred Baker wrote: >>>> >>>> On Aug 24, 2009, at 9:17 AM, Luke Marrott wrote: >>>> >>>>> What are your thoughts on what the definition of Broadband should be >> >>>>> going >>>>> forward? I would assume this will be the standard definition for a >>>>> number of >>>>> years to come. >>>> >>>> >>>> Historically, narrowband was circuit switched (ISDN etc) and >> >> broadband >>>> >>>> was packet switched. Narrowband was therefore tied to the digital >>>> signaling hierarchy and was in some way a multiple of 64 KBPS. As the >> >>>> term was used then, broadband delivery options of course included >>>> virtual circuits bearing packets, like Frame Relay and ATM. >>> >>> of or relating to or being a communications network in which the >>> bandwidth can be divided and shared by multiple simultaneous signals >> >> (as >>> >>> for voice or data or video) >>> >>> That's my humble opinion. Let them use a new term, like "High Speed >>> Internet". >>> >>> >> Seconded >> >> >> > > >