Welcome to the Cook Report on Internet Protocol
Some of the topics we explore:
- economic framework for thinking about technology
- fiber as economic infrastructure
- change from PSTN to all IP over fiber
- business models- domestic and global
- green IT, mobility, wireless
- new carrier models
- community fiber
- enterprise fiber & NRENs
Click HERE for a mind map that shows how these topics relate
COOK Report for November - December 2013
Free Networks - A Global Survey
User Built Infrastructure Held as a Commons
Wi-fi netwprks bulit owned and operated by their users are taking shape arond the world. Basic infrastructure is "free" and structurally separated from Content which most often is the provision of a gateway to the internet provided to users for a small fee. These networks are not free of cost. Nothing is. But they are very purposefuylly designed so that the basic operational infrastructure is owned by no single person and can never be broken up and sold to the highest bidder. The owner is the community that labored and collaborated to bring it into existence,
We look at how thses networks are beginning to scale in France, in Argentina, in the USA and especially in Spain where gui-fi.net has achieved successful ongoing scale additing 50 new acvtive nodes every week and serving an area of about 15,000 square miles with 3 full time employees, a five person Board and 35 volunteer technical coordinators - a structure held together by about 100 commercial installers who add new infratsructure to the network commons and sell access to content that rides over the commons.