An Internet World, the Cable Industry, and the Future

Washington Metropolitan Cable Club

The Information Revolution in Mid-StreamDouglas E. Van Houweling, President and CEO

University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development

Overview History & Background Today’s Internet Applications Information -> Collaboration Technology Distributed Organizations Intangible Value Implications for an Internet World Implications for the Cable Industry

Internet History

ARPAnet origins 1987-NSFnet 1995 -- Privatization 1996 -- Internet2

• 34 > 127 research university members/33 corporate members

1996 -- Next Generation Internet• Clinton/Gore Administration

Research andDevelopment

Commercialization

Partnerships

Privatization

NSFNET

Internet2, Abilene, vBNSESNET, NREN, DREN

ARPAnet

gigabittestbeds

ActiveNetswirelessWDM

SprintLinkInternetMCI Agency

NetworksANS

InteroperableHigh PerformanceResearch &EducationNetworks

21st CenturyNetworking

Quality of Service(QoS)

The Challenge of Today’s Internet

Growing at over 15% per month Challenges to higher education

• The “world wide wait”• Human interaction awkward

• Virtual meetings and seminars

• Shared authoring

• Browsing publications

• Distributed large scale computing and data base efforts not feasible

Internet2 Goals

Enable new generation of applications

Re-create leading edge R&E network capability

Transfer capability to the global production Internet

American Sign Language and English Captions

Gallaudet University

Georgetown University

Distributed Image SpreadSheet

University of Missouri-Columbia

Teleimmersion

University of Illinois-Chicago

University of Illinois-NCSA

Old Dominion University

The CAVE

Source: University of Illinois-Chicago

Immersadesk

Source: University of Illinois-Chicago

Virtual Temporal Bone

Source: University of Illinois-Chicago

Applications and Engineering

ApplicationsApplications

EngineeringEngineering

EnablesEnables MotivateMotivate

Technology Single-Lane Road ->

Multi-lane Superhighway• Special-purpose lanes• Access control• Tolls where appropriate

End-to-end performance guarantees• Quality of Service across multiple providers

Support for Internet-based broadcast Authentication & security Faster circuits

vBNS & Abilene Leading edge connectivity for Internet2 Speeds ranging from 60 million to 1 billion

characters/second very high performance Backbone Network

Service (vBNS) -- sponsored by NSF and MCI Abilene sponsored by the University

Corporation for Advanced Internet Development, with support from Qwest, Nortel, and Cisco

Abilene Announced 14 April

Internet2 Member Universities127 Members as of May 1998

Honolulu

Hawaii

JuneauAnchorage

Alaska

Corporate Members/Partners*Corporate Members/Partners*• 3Com*• Advanced Network & Services*• Alcatel• Apple• Ameritech• AT&T*• Bay Networks*• Bell Atlantic• Bellcore• Cabletron*• Cisco Systems*• Deutsche Telekom• Digital Equipment Corporation• FORE Systems*• GTE Internetworking• IBM*

• 3Com*• Advanced Network & Services*• Alcatel• Apple• Ameritech• AT&T*• Bay Networks*• Bell Atlantic• Bellcore• Cabletron*• Cisco Systems*• Deutsche Telekom• Digital Equipment Corporation• FORE Systems*• GTE Internetworking• IBM*

• Lucent Technologies*• MCI Communications*• Newbridge Networks*• Nokia• Nortel*• Novell• Packet Engines• Perot Systems• Qwest Communications*• SBC Technology Resources• Siemens• Sprint• StarBurst Communications*• Sun Microsystems• Torrent Technologies• William Communications

• Lucent Technologies*• MCI Communications*• Newbridge Networks*• Nokia• Nortel*• Novell• Packet Engines• Perot Systems• Qwest Communications*• SBC Technology Resources• Siemens• Sprint• StarBurst Communications*• Sun Microsystems• Torrent Technologies• William Communications

Trend --Information -> Collaboration

Today’s Internet focuses on access to and delivery of information and entertainment

Tomorrow’s Internet will support human collaboration in an information and media rich environment

Dramatic implications for the cable industry

Intangible Value

The world is moving from an economy based on tangibles to one based on intangibles• slower growth in physical flows of

material goods & products• faster growth of ethereal streams of

data, images, and symbols Supporting human interaction less

constrained by geography & time

Distributed Organizations VISA International The Internet Higher education All created to convey intangible value All dependent on information and

flexible interorganizational and interpersonal relationships

Implications for an Internet World The future will undoubtedly be different

than we can predict, but we can observe a powerful confluence:• intangible value represented in and

transportable through information technology

• increasing success of distributed global organizations and communities

• an Internet which supports a world built on human collaboration

Electronic Commerce Explosion

Trends and implications• Enabling Online Business• Applied Encryption Technology Services• Multimedia and Video Service• Embraced by Industry: eg: Automotive

Network Exchange• Internet Transactions projected at over

$300 Billion by 2002

Internet and Multimedia

A new world of advanced communications• Internet multicast “video”, telephony

and radio• Transport of Internet traffic on cable,

direct broadcast satellite; radio and broadcast TV

• Real-time quality of service support• Mutual Reinforcement among media

(print, TV, radio, web, email)

Opportunity for the Cable Industry

• Significant applications and engineering breakthroughs

• Cable modems, digital TV, Web TV, Internet phone

• New application opportunities• Multimedia impact• Impact on delivery of content• Broad impact of technology transfer

and market making

Are We Ready? We still think about mass media, not

personal communication We still measure the economy in

terms of tangibles We still assume organizations are

hierarchical Is government, education, industry

collaboration the answer?

Your Comments and Questions?