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Connectivity Shift: Infrastructure Paradigms in the Digital Age

Explore the shift in infrastructure paradigms towards using bits as the new infrastructure model, decoupling services from traditional transport. Discover the sustainable funding model and transformative potential of digital infrastructure. Learn how diverse services can be funded natively, leading to hypergrowth and new opportunities.

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Connectivity Shift: Infrastructure Paradigms in the Digital Age

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  1. Connectivity in the Digital Age Bob Frankston http://www.Frankston.com PSTN InfrastructureParadigms shifted

  2. Bits, The New Infrastructure • Must address the cause not the symptoms • Bits decouple services from the transport • Bits are an alphabet with no value in themselves • Value is External  New funding model • Infrastructure is a proven model • Roads (The road system is an emergent property) • Home Infrastructure  Community Infrastructure

  3. We Contribute Infrastructure

  4. From Tenants to Owners With Home After 1995 Broadband, Cellular, PSTN • No Fees, Ownership • Zero marginal cost • Can use bits any way • Peripherals and innovation • Extend to community • Local Infrastructure • Monthly Fee per Device • Never pay off finance fee • Dictate meaning of bits • Apps • Unbilled bits are dead bits

  5. Transition Happens • Container Shipping • Goods to packets. • Private pikes to public roads • Business community to community funding • Advertising • Supports services that aren’t profit centers • USPS stamps on UPS boxes till 1970’s

  6. Stuck in 19th century? • Single distribution system for electricity. • Bits aren’t consumables with intrinsic value. • Distribution system, not sharing. % as “bits” • How is this model sustainable in a real market? • No wonder DSL is in violation of Moore’s law!

  7. The network needn’t know which passengers are part of a team.

  8. Using Infrastructure • Edge-to-Edge forced the issue • VoIP without QoS • Decoupling markets  Hypergrowth • Use of consumer infrastructure (home) • AccessConnectivity! • Local is exciting and 100% “Internet” • One “Internet” inside & outside

  9. Doing Our Own Infrastructure • Marked-based native funding model • Extends home and campus infrastructure • Commons like roads and sidewalks • Reduced costs by avoiding limits of pipes • Stable funding model with aligned incentives • Transformational, zero marginal cost: • Creates opportunity • Medical services, public safety, cost savings

  10. Making a Fresh Start • Regulation to Markets • Native funding for each service • 9-1-1  direct connectivity • Voice is an app • Trust is social not a service • Services are local and global

  11. Scrap Pile • The following slides are a scrap pile that may be mined in the future

  12. Transition • The PSTN retirement is a symptom • Shifting the business model • Analog: Service providers own infrastructure • Digital: Bits enable a common infrastructure • Stable market-based model • Infrastructure own locally and regionally • Services are diverse and funded natively • From Regulation to Markets

  13. Overview 00110101101 $€ • From burden of the “PSTN” to Connectivity • Services using the network not in the network • No network services  new funding model for net • Layers to Decoupling (bits, relationships) • Infrastructure is geographically local • Just exchange bits, services are external • Funded like roads • Needs very little regulation • Infrastructure is an enabler.

  14. After the PSTN • PSTN: Provides burdened paying for ”wires” • Connectivity decouples: • How we get services • How we pay for the “wires” • Use native business models • Neighbors work together for infrastructure • Any provider can provide services • 9-1-1 et al without legacy of the 1950’s

  15. Conclusion • New paradigms, not virtual PSTN • Generativity of BOYI (Infrastructure) • Regulation  Markets • Local ownership of infrastructure • Global availability of services • Transitions • Private Pikes to Public Roads • Opportunities rather than promises

  16. The Concept of the PSTN • Telegram as design point • Intelligence in Network SS7 • Services are provided • Providers cover costs • Sell services/messages • Path is a Pipe • (Naïve) Trust as a service

  17. Understanding bits • The alphabet for information • The universal solvent • Are not consumed

  18. Who will Deploy • Local Implications

  19. Bits, not “Internet” • Used as basic infrastructure • Meta Devices • Policies for lights • Safety Monitoring and Compliance • Local video • Not about Access • Peer connectivity • Not tied to a path

  20. It’s about Business • Classic Telecom • Value is in the network • Funded by selling service • Digital World • Value is external • Value created doesn’t fund the network • Divestiture

  21. From Regulation to Markets • Markets can now provide “telephony” • Decoupling vs. lock-step engineering • Escape QoS et al • Playing out divestiture and bits from the 70’s • From “Trust Ma Bell” to “Trust is Social” • Enabling Hypergrowth

  22. Bits Change the Rules • No “wired” vs. “wireless” • Not Consumed • Inverse relationship between value and quantity • Services decoupled from bit-exchanging • Skype • Over-the-Top • Cellular over IP • Path independent • Tethering • Wi-Fi offloading

  23. Decouples Business Models • Services • Charge for value • Level playing field • Over all networks, not just one’s own • Physical infrastructure • Funding by taxing externalities • Removes cost/complexity of billing/settlement • “Broadband” all same so why till?

  24. Why the PSTN? • Funding model, provider model • Phone numbers • Universal Service • Emergency Services (911) • Municipal info (311) • Authentication and Caller-ID • Billing • QoS

  25. Dynamic Infrastructure • Public safety • if your in #osloand are ok, try not to use your phone. #bombeoslo#osloexpl#utøya

  26. (Virtual) PSTN and More • SIP Trunking? • Cellular of IP • Gateways into home • Starting at the edge • Tunneling • Car software upgrade

  27. Bugaboos • Networks • Providers • Lesson of search DNS  Single Bar • Trust and Zombies Ahead • No Single Hop • Funding like putting stamps on UPS boxes • DSL vs. Line cards • SS7 • Congestion and Limits

  28. Infrastructure Funding • Avoids needing elements to be profit center • Like advertising liberates Google • Aligned Incentives vs. Regulation • Good Stuff Cheap

  29. Free “Wi-Fi” • Public use • Emergency use • Bits are bits

  30. Crises • Modems in the 90’s • Funding Broadband Deployment • Wi-Fi offload for Cellular • Global Crossing failure

  31. Networking Start at Home • Connecting devices in the home & campus • DLNA • Light Switches • Intranets [sic] • Municipal services • Once we have connectivity • Use for “offload”

  32. Transition • Incremental from the edge • Home networks • Community: MDU, Development, Cities, Regions • Interconnect models • Aggregate purchasing • Tunneling and Virtual Communities

  33. Business in Transition • Decoupling from Cable • NBCU • TWG • Telecom • New Services • BHR problem

  34. Divestiture • Because of digital • Structural Separation • Wholesale/Retail – same model for different businesses. • Spectrum Auctions on Steroids

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