[94372] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Google wants to be your Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roland Dobbins)
Sat Jan 20 21:45:50 2007
In-Reply-To: <45B28301.7050104@everydns.net>
From: Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@cisco.com>
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 18:40:44 -0800
To: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Jan 20, 2007, at 1:00 PM, David Ulevitch wrote:
> maybe we'll see "eyeball" networks start to peer with each other as
> they start sourcing more and more of the bits. Maybe that's already
> happening.
At some point, I think MANET/mesh/roofnets/Zigbee/etc. are going to
start fulfilling this role, at least in part.
Which should give NSPs something to think about in terms of how they
can embrace this model and make money with it. Getting your
customers to build and maintain your infrastructure for you is a
pretty powerful incentive, IMHO.
http://en.fon.com/ (not MANET/mesh, but may be going there, at some
point)
http://www.speakeasy.net/netshare/terms/ (an NSP who are embracing a
sharing model)
http://www.netequality.org/ (nonprofit mesh)
http://www.cuwin.net/about (mesh community)
http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/columns/article.php/3634931 (roofnet SP/
facilitator)
http://www.meraki.net/
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/network/p2p/pnrp.mspx (built into
Vista, enabled by default, I think)
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