[116902] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Brunner-Williams)
Wed Aug 26 12:58:08 2009
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:57:46 -0400
From: Eric Brunner-Williams <brunner@nic-naa.net>
To: Luke Marrott <luke.marrott@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4a9edb810908240917r15739868i93ae029165962e9c@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
In the applications I wrote earlier this month for BIP (Rural Utilities
Services, USDA) and BTOP (NTIA, non-rural) infrastructure, for Maine's
2nd, I was keenly aware that broadband hasn't taken off as a pervasive,
if not universal service in rural areas of the US.
I don't think the speed metric is the metric that will make non-adoption
in sparce clustered demographics distinguishable from adoption in denser
demographics. I suspect that issues like symmetry of state signaling,
latency, jitter, ... metrics that resemble what I looked for from MPI
runs when benchmarking parallel systems, will characterize applications
that may be distinguishable from the adoption, market penetration,
renewal criteria from the applications that for reasons I can only
conjecture, the standard "triple play" killer apps, which simply aren't
driving broadband (whatever that is) adoption in rural areas. And no, I
don't know what those better-than-triple-play-killer-apps-in-suburbia are.
Eric
Luke Marrott wrote:
> I read an article on DSL Reports the other day (
> http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/FCC-Please-Define-Broadband-104056), in
> which the FCC has a document requesting feedback on the definition of
> Broadband.
>
> 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.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
