[NANOG] Roport on internet business

2009-12-23 Thread Takashi Tome
Hi All

Morgan Stanley has released a very interesting report on internet business with 
some tips to net operators:

http://www.morganstanley.com/institutional/techresearch/mobile_internet_report122009.html

Regards

Takashi Tome
CPqD
www.cpqd.com.br  


Re: [NANOG] Roport on internet business

2009-12-23 Thread Richard Bennett
It's actually available for free on the World-Wide Internet at 
http://www.morganstanley.com/institutional/techresearch/pdfs/Mobile_Internet_Report_Key_Themes_Final.pdf 
, but you can purchase a paper copy if you'd rather. It's pretty slow 
going as it's mostly power points, some with lots and lots of words, but 
some of the graphs and insights are intriguing, esp. as they related to 
the non-USA parts of the world.


The authors are pretty well convinced that the demand for more wireless 
spectrum will be handled by spectral efficiency improvements and 
deployment of more towers, they stress the importance of replacing 
copper with fiber and microwave in the middle mile, and don't think the 
telcos are doing the right things. There's a lot of discussion about how 
the wireless networks will handle voice and best-efforts at the same 
time which many will find troublesome, I suppose, but overall I'd give 
it 4 out of 5 stars.


RB

On 12/23/2009 3:01 PM, Scott Weeks wrote:

--- taka...@cpqd.com.br wrote:
From: Takashi Tometaka...@cpqd.com.br

Morgan Stanley has released a very interesting report on internet business with 
some tips to net operators:

http://www.morganstanley.com/institutional/techresearch/mobile_internet_report122009.html
---


It must be purchased:

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The Mobile Internet Report

To receive a printed copy of The Mobile Internet Report, please contact your 
Morgan Stanley Representative. To purchase a copy, please click here.
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scott

   





Re: [NANOG] Roport on internet business

2009-12-23 Thread Jared Mauch

On Dec 23, 2009, at 6:11 PM, Richard Bennett wrote:

 The authors are pretty well convinced that the demand for more wireless 
 spectrum will be handled by spectral efficiency improvements and deployment 
 of more towers, they stress the importance of replacing copper with fiber and 
 microwave in the middle mile, and don't think the telcos are doing the right 
 things.

I know, watching my local incumbent they are not replacing damaged copper with 
fiber.  I think they must have warehouses of it someplace.  I can't imagine 
that it is good to replace buried copper w/copper during the wintertime.  If 
you're out doing it, might as well *actually* install fiber in the conduit.

(Unless it's about unions/job protection for the copper guys).

- Jared (not saying unions are bad, but when you operate two assets and have a 
different union for each, it can limit your potential significantly).


Re: [NANOG] Roport on internet business

2009-12-23 Thread Scott Howard
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Scott Weeks sur...@mauigateway.com wrote:

 It must be purchased:


Only if you want the dead-tree edition.  The others are linked below the
text you've quoted.

  Scott.


Re: [NANOG] Roport on internet business

2009-12-23 Thread Richard Bennett

Maybe we need to pass some laws that ban copper wire outdoors.

On 12/23/2009 4:22 PM, Jared Mauch wrote:

On Dec 23, 2009, at 6:11 PM, Richard Bennett wrote:

   

The authors are pretty well convinced that the demand for more wireless 
spectrum will be handled by spectral efficiency improvements and deployment of 
more towers, they stress the importance of replacing copper with fiber and 
microwave in the middle mile, and don't think the telcos are doing the right 
things.
 

I know, watching my local incumbent they are not replacing damaged copper with 
fiber.  I think they must have warehouses of it someplace.  I can't imagine 
that it is good to replace buried copper w/copper during the wintertime.  If 
you're out doing it, might as well *actually* install fiber in the conduit.

(Unless it's about unions/job protection for the copper guys).

- Jared (not saying unions are bad, but when you operate two assets and have a 
different union for each, it can limit your potential significantly).





Re: [NANOG] Roport on internet business

2009-12-23 Thread Scott Weeks

--- sc...@doc.net.au wrote: --
From: Scott Howard sc...@doc.net.au
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Scott Weeks sur...@mauigateway.com wrote:

 It must be purchased:

Only if you want the dead-tree edition.  The others are linked below the
text you've quoted.
--


DOH! I blame it on Christmasits.  It's a bad disease I recently caught...  ;-)

Apologies for the confusion.  Have a great Christmas!
scott



Re: [NANOG] Roport on internet business

2009-12-23 Thread David Barak
- Original Message 
From: Jared Mauch ja...@puck.nether.net

I know, watching my local incumbent they are not replacing damaged copper with 
fiber.  I think they must have warehouses of it someplace.  I can't imagine 
that it is good to replace buried copper w/copper during the wintertime.  If 
you're out doing it, might as well *actually* install fiber in the conduit.

(Unless it's about unions/job protection for the copper guys).

- Jared (not saying unions are bad, but when you operate two assets and have a 
different union for each, it can limit your potential significantly).


One of the very hard things about running a large, geographically distributed 
layer 0/1 organization is managing the various and sundry physical cables from 
point to point.  Replacing one bad span with a good span which is qualitatively 
different introduces a level of version control and management headache, and if 
done in a haphazard fashion can reduce the overall availability of the network. 
 I don't know who your incumbent is, but it's reasonable to assume that they 
have some strategy for cable plant management which includes overall technology 
refresh at some point, with like-for-like replacement until then.

Also, last I checked, the specs on how to build a good layer 0/1 fiber 
infrastructure were different than those for copper - because the capabilities 
are different, the network architecture has different optimizations available.

This doesn't mean that the provider shouldn't be moving toward a large-scale 
fiber rollout - far from it!  I just wanted to provide a reason why they might 
not want to do said rollout in a piecemeal fashion.

David Barak
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