Will we butt up against the Web's limitations?
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| April 29, 2008 |  View for printing |
For thousands of years, trade routes were considered important to the regional sustainability of every civilization. Those trade routes are now electronic.
Most people don't equate network infrastructure with the rest of the layers of critical infrastructure that have been recognized throughout centuries as necessary for global commerce. They should. The need to understand how maximizing electronic trade routes is critical to maximizing the economic viability of a region.
To put it in a historical perspective, the chart below gives an overall view of commerce and the layers of critical infrastructure that supported its growth and expansion. While space has yet to be conquered from a realistic commerce perspective, we might as well add it into the framework because it will certainly play some role in the next century. For this discussion, we will focus on the broadband connectivity level.
James Carlini
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It's ironic but our senior engineer is in Switzerland. I was telling him about moving into our new office and setting up Cable broadband w/ 3-4Mbs down and 515 Kbs up. He proceeded to tell me his home connection was 4Mbs down and 1Mbs up and only $35/month. I then learned that in france they have over 25Mbs/sec speeds for approx $10/month... It does seem like the US is trailing behind in that respect. --Too true
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