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To: Peter Ecclesine who wrote (36712)	11/14/2010 10:28:10 AM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Respond to of 46821

Petere and Rob S., Thank you both for the followup discussion on my original retweet of Crowley's citation in my #msg-26956000 . This is a perfect of example of the clash between architecture and marketecture. Since the two of you seem to have done such an excellent job of debunking this one, maybe you'll take the time to address another sham: NextGen Broadband. The folly surrounding the latter can be explained on multiple strata, beginning with the fact that most of what is being called next gen today was conceived during the early 1990s and placed on the back burner for fear of 'giving too much away'. Or stated another way, because it was still too early in time to disrupt the distribution channels and inventory flows of what had just been released, which itself was more then mere remnants of the late 1980s. For example, the underlying technologies of Verizon's FiOS, which was released in 2004, were used aboard aircraft carriers during the early 1980s, and later went on to serve as fiber-optic backbone networks in financial trading desks later in the decade. So called next-gen DSL technologies capable of 100 Mbps operation and beyond, likewise, were being cultivated (whose development efforts were suddenly curtailed, rather inexplicably) as BDSL (broadband digital subscriber line, now called VDSL) by Bell Labs, BT Labs, GT&E labs and others, in the 1995-1996 time frame. And virtually everything we see today being offered in wireline broadband can be traced back to the ITU's full service area network (FSAN) design template of 1994, which NextLevel Communications brought live during the late 1990s. FAC ------

To: Peter Ecclesine who wrote (36712)	11/14/2010 11:11:00 AM
From: Rob S.	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 46821

The appropriate group to set the agenda and baseline definitions for communications is ITU, not TIA or the standards, regulatory/government, or trade groups of individual countries or groups. While wireless is pivotal to the converged vision of ITC or 'personal broadband everywhere', it is becoming less relevant over time to define evolution of technology in terms of generations of wireless infrastructure or devices. That's somewhat analogous to what happened when the Internet made use of wired/fiber networking to connect locations over common protocols: the emphasis on computing necessarily changed and each step in processing power, local storage and other factors that drove the 'PC revolution' became less important. The evolution of wireless technologies and architectures is occurring rapidly and encourages innovation as consumer electronics, computing, and Internet/media are enabled to become cloud based and immediate. However, the importance of generational staging of the technology is muted by the universal nature of IP. The impact of wireless, Internet and computing is now based more on software that resides on devices and in the cloud, on bandwidth and low latency which cross the variety of transport media, and on using the combination in more effective, thought multiplying, and entertaining ways. The battle for markets goes on no matter what and sometimes contrary to what seems to make sense to those better informed. Que sera, sera.