re: routing pucks, and GITH (Gigabit Internet to the Home)
Thanks, Dave.
The PON material, we've been covering that for over two or three
years now, over in the Last Mile thread.
But the CANET2 article you provided in the uplink? This is exactly
the blue print for discussion I've been looking for. Even if it is
only a discussion paper at this time. Heck, that's what we do here.
Discuss. We'd be dangerous if we did anything else. smile
canet2.net
I've copied the abstract from this paper below, along with the TOC. It
speaks to many of the principles and goals we've been discussing here, and
then some, i.e., the "routing puck."
Then again, I don't recall introducing any social implications, school,
libraries, etc.
I've not read the entire article yet. Let's see if the routing puck supports the
vLAN functionality that I suggested for one of the later phases of our
fictitious model upstream. I'm looking forward to reading the entire paper,
tomorrow.
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I note that in the abstract below Anraud mentions some terms which are
very reminiscent of another Canadian's work recently, namely Francois
Menard who along with Timothy Denton wrote a paper for the Canadian
CRTC on Open Access for ISPs which I posted somewhere upstream.
One such term was "Competitive Access Interconnection Point" which
speaks to a question by Jay, earlier.
Here it is:
Message 12304474
tmdenton.com
Regards, Frank
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From: canet2.net
"Gigabit Internet to every Canadian Home by 2005"
A Discussion Paper - Bill St. Arnaud
Abstract
One of last great impediments to wide scale and rapid deployment of the
Information Society is the "last mile" issue. This paper outlines some of the
issues and history of the last mile problem and proposes a research and
development program leading to early deployment of extreme high speed
Internet access to schools and libraries which will then underpin an
architectural framework for high speed Internet access to the home -
Gigabit Internet to the Home (GITH).
The proposed GITH strategy calls for the deployment of a third
residential network service operating in parallel with existing telephone and
cable delivery mechanisms and thereby avoiding the regulatory and
technical hurdles of integrating traditional telephone and cable services into
one common delivery mechanism.
The "divergence" of these services rather than "convergence" may allow
for early and rapid deployment of GITH perhaps in advance of the
currently planned large scale rollouts of cable modem and xDSL services.
Over time the GITH service may also incorporate voice telephony and
cable TV services.
Although there are many research issues that need to be addressed such as
scaling, integrated layer 3 optical services and network management an
economically viable architecture may be possible that incorporates
competitive equal access at both the physical and logical layers, by using
low cost Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (DWDM) equipment, and new
Internet architectural concepts currently under development in CANARIE's
optical Internet network -CA*net 3.
It is estimated that a GITH system would cost less than Hybrid Fiber Coax
(HFC) systems currently being deployed and would be marginally more
expensive than xDSL or Cable Modem services. The access bandwidth
could scale from as little as a few megabits per second to a mind boggling
several terabits per second using either individual dedicated fibers,
dedicated wavelengths, logical switched paths or direct statistical
multiplexing in a neighborhood router on a chip called a "routing puck".
Governments can play a key role in accelerating the deployment of a GITH
network by requiring service providers who want to provide public funded
Internet service to schools and libraries to deploy at the same time a GITH
network infrastructure that would easily scale to support thousands of
homes with competitive equal access. The early market pull of GITH
network may be "always on" applications, multimedia "push" services, mega
e-mail, DWDM caching, and DVD video applications.
THIS IS A DISCUSSION PAPER. THE IDEAS AND CONCEPTS
PRESENTED IN THIS PAPER IN NO WAY REFLECT OR
REPRESENT THE POSITION OR VIEWS OF THE CANARIE
BOARD AND/OR ITS MANAGEMENT.
Table of Contents
1.0 Introduction
2.0 Historical Perspective
2.1 Cable and xDSL Modems
2.2 Wireless local loop
2.3 FSAN - FTTx Technologies
3.0 A Radical New Concept for the last mile Issue
3.1 The Business Case for a GITH Network
4.0 A Possible Architecture for a GITH network
4.1 Neighborhood Competitive Access Interconnection Point
4.2 DWDM in the metro area and to the home
4.3 Passive Optical Networking
4.4 The Routing Puck
4.5 Statistical Multiplexing
4.6 Minimizing State
5.0 Gigabit Applications to the Home
5.1 DVD Video
5.2 Mega e-mail attachments
5.3 DWDM caching
5.4 Multimedia Push and Always On Applications
6.0 Next Steps
7.0 Acknowledgements
8.0 References and Bibliography
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