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[peter baston]

Perfectly apt Andrew and Tom

1 GIGABYTE per second up and down should indeed be our target for the next
ten years anything else is useless as our economic competition overseas will
show us

Wasn't that a mantra of Lamdarail "Gigabyte or bust ) or did it ?

You build the highway for what its going to do not what you once did

Don't understand the panic re the DMV and Social Security metaphor or did I
miss something / but still

( : ( : pete

On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Harris, Brian <bharris at nmag.gov> wrote:

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> On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Andrew cohill <cohill at designnine.com>wrote:
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>> We've begun to talk about "little" broadband and "big" broadband to
>> address this very issue.  We use the term "little broadband" to talk about
>> DSL, cable modem, WiFi, and satellite, and "big broadband" to talk about
>> fiber networks delivering 100 megabit or Gigabit connections.
>>
>> We have found this to be very effective, as ordinary people immediately
>> understand that they don't want to be stuck with "little" broadband.
>>
>> One of the other language issues we run into is that "broadband" and
>> "Internet" are used synonymously, and this causes great confusion.
>>
>> Broadband, properly used, refers to the basic transport network, which can
>> carry many services.  Internet access is just one of dozens or even hundreds
>> of services that can be delivered over a high performance broadband network.
>>  People and businesses want more than "high speed Internet."  They want
>> phone and TV services, they want business class services like
>> videoconferencing, data backup services, medical and telehealth services,
>> security services, movies on demand, and much more.
>>
>> Broadband is the highway.  Internet access is just one of the trucks using
>> the highway.
>>
>> Andrew
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>> On Jul 15, 2010, at 4:25 PM, Tom Johnson wrote:
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>> The problem with essays/editorials like this is that they rarely define
>> "broadband."  For too long now, the FCC said it was 250kbytes (NB make sure
>> one specifies BITES or BYTES) up and down.  In fact, we need to join much of
>> the so-called developing world like Japan and South Korea and set our
>> initial target a 1gigabytes up and down .
>>
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