[IP] CALLING THE NEXT TECH CHALLENGE

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

Delivered-To: dfarber+@ux13.sp.cs.cmu.edu
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 11:51:40 -0500 (EST)
From: Newmedia@aol.com
Subject: Re: [IP] CALLING THE NEXT TECH CHALLENGE
To: dave@farber.net
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Dave:

The presumption here is that the telecom companies are really important in 
all this -- perhaps they are not?

In order for these advanced services to be developed and rolled out, there 
will have to be media, finance, health-care, educational, governmental and 
other suppliers who have committed to next-generation services 
platforms.  A new "on-demand" systems architecture has to be built -- why 
presume that Verizon et al are going to play a key role in all this?

Corporations "bypass" the telcos for their own traffic needs 
everyday.  They will find a way to get to the consumers with these new 
services as well.

If the telcos act as a "bottleneck" then they will be bypassed as well -- 
the important question is what are the service providers doing, not what 
the telcos are not doing.

Best,

Mark Stahlman
New York City

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