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Welcome to The COOK Report on Internet Protocol



Map of our 21st century infrastructure territory
Some of the topics we explore:
  1. economic framework for thinking about technology
  2. fiber as economic infrastructure
  3. change from PSTN to all IP over fiber
  4. business models- domestic and global
  5. green IT, mobility, wireless
  6. new carrier models
  7. community fiber
  8. enterprise fiber & NRENs

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how these topics relate

 
COOK Report for March -April 2013 PDF Print E-mail
Written by Gordon Cook   
Friday, 01 February 2013 00:00

A Quality Based Foundation for IP Network Multiplexing

Why Just Add More Bandwidth Does not Work Well in Access Networks

Trading Best Efforet for Managed Reliability

This report lays the foundation for further reports on the efforts of Predictable Network Solutiuons a consultancy that has been offering a paradigm changing approach to the issue og Quality of Service in IP networks. Telecommu nications networks both analogue and now digital have been based on the application of multiplexing which is to say thew weaving together of  shared traffic  in a wy such that the flows in a way such that ideally users feels as though they have the infrastructure all to themselves.  With thge huge growth of traffic at the end of two decadesa of tghe ckommercial internet, this feat is getting more and more difficult to pull off in any kind of coat effecvtrive way.

Our report examines the basic approach of neil Davies ansd associates in building a multiplexing that assumes one no longer trties to stuff the maximum amount of data through a pipe.  Rather networks that are  sustainable from here on will strive to balance load and responsiveness in a new approach to multiplexing. Thi sshort issue introduces the basic concepts.

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Last Updated on Wednesday, 03 April 2013 12:27
 

Provoking Strategic - Outside the Box Thinking

The COOK Report is a monthly newsletter for those willing to struggle with the future. Given the vast amount of information Available for "free" on the internet, it is clear that a newsletter that demands a hefty subscription fee must be unique. Read More

A Recent Evaluation from John Wilson in Wales

As an independent voice since 1992, I explore the rapidly changing field of ICT as global infastructure by means of a wide range of interviews with principals involved in newly emerging technologies and related value propositions. For John's Unsolicited evaluation --
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Once a year a short in person gathering of list members cements the strategic alliance.
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Find out more about my private "Economics of IP Networks" - an ongoing, online symposium of Internet experts and industry-recognized "visionaries"
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