Saturday, March 31, 2007
How Nortel defines true broadband
Nortel CTO John Roese doesn't blog frequently enough - I guess his day job keeps getting in the way - but I find that each post provides insight into his vision.I like these insights.
In his latest post, he talks about his concept of 'true' broadband:
My definition of broadband communications is more associated with the experience than the technology involved. In a true broadband communications experience, the technology is so effective in delivering a rich experience that you simply forget about the underlying technology and just communicate.John's definition uses a approach that is refreshingly technology independent. People often confuse requirements with solutions. RFPs might define a requirement for fibre, when the real requirement is perhaps the capacity often associated with fibre.
How many people go to the hardware store thinking they need nails, when the real requirement is fastening two pieces of wood together. Perhaps a dove-tail joint would be better suited if it is furniture, or screws if you need more strength. Or nails if one of the requirements is cheap and quick.
There may be a broader range of solutions that can be brought into view, if people will take the time to define real requirements. It is a systems engineering approach. I like to see John Roese speaking in such terms.
He'll be our closing speaker at The 2007 Canadian Telecom Summit in June.
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Posted by Mark Goldberg @ 3/31/2007 08:54:00 AM 
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Sort of like the way electricity workks, eh? (I couldn't resist)
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: 2:56 PM, March 31, 2007
: 2:56 PM, March 31, 2007
Yay! In the business plan for Sympatico, which my colleagues and I wrote in early 1995, I used this definition of broadband: whatever speed is required to transmit good-quality television (prerecorded, not live, to allow intensive compression to be applied before transmitting). I mentioned Nicholas Negroponte's forecast of improved compression algorithms being able to do this in around 1.2 Mb/s, but emphasized that this was just ballparking, and of course that was before HDTV had taken off.
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Rohan Jayasekera : 4:43 PM, March 31, 2007
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