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Broadband robertshaw.info references to broadband deployment issues. 31 January 2003 Designing Next Generation Telecom RegulationThe World Dialogue on Regulation for Network Economies (WDR) have released their final report (PDF) on their 2002 dialogue theme: Designing Next Generation Telecom Regulation: ICT Convergence or Multisector Utility? (PDF). The report thoughtfully examines various alternatives being considered for next generation telecom regulation.
In 2003, WDR's dialgoue theme will be Stimulating Investment in Network Development. 4:11:35 PM Google It!ITU brings Gigabit to your doorstep: all optical networks a step closerITU Press Release: Two new standards from ITU will allow service-providers to offer a raft of new services. In its capacity as world leader in optical network standards, ITU has agreed today on protocols for Gigabit-capable Passive Optical Networks (G-PONs) that are a further step towards all-optical networks. The ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector lead study group on optical technology is ITU-T Study Group 15. 1:50:38 PM Google It!Wireless Broadband, IEEE 802.16a & Mesh NetworksThe IEEE has just announced it has approved the 802.16a extension to the 802.16 broadband wireless access (BWA) standard. See Roger Marks' tutorial on 802.16 (Zipped PowerPoint) to understand why this is important for providing broadband wireless access. 802.16a provides improved support for mesh networks, where each subscriber access point is also part of the routing infrastructure. For a general overview of the growing interest in non-line-of-sight wireless broadband systems, see the IEEE's Spectrum article: Wireless Broadband in a Box. For a more in-depth technical explanation with regard to mesh networks, see Dave Beyer's recent (November 2002) presentation on Wireless Mesh Networks for Residential Broadband (PDF), demonstrating some extremely important characteristics of mesh networks, namely:
Some earlier articles here on mesh networks can be found in Cheap Wireless Mesh Networks, Watch this airspace and parasitic networks and Seeding Mesh Networks. 1:37:20 PM Google It!
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