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Map of our 21st century infrastructure territory
Some of the topics we explore:
  1. economic framework for thinking about technology
  2. fiber as economic infrastructure
  3. change from PSTN to all IP over fiber
  4. business models- domestic and global
  5. green IT, mobility, wireless
  6. new carrier models
  7. community fiber
  8. enterprise fiber & NRENs

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COOK Report for September 2010 PDF Print E-mail
Written by Gordon Cook   
Friday, 02 July 2010 00:00

Bringing Internet and Education to South East Asia and Africa

John Hawker and Sat-Ed

An examination of the work of John Hawker with satellites, digital TV,  and more recently the IPTV protocol from the late  1990s to the present in Thailand and Africa.  John describes how he used caching very early on to solve he economics of bring education content and internet to remote places in Thailand.  Most importantly because John lives in the village of the family of his Thai wife, Nog Pai where I visited him in March 2010, he sees first hand how the technology can solve local problems.

He describes how between 2002 and 2005 he built a viable ICT Center where internet in an area with phone service, could help to educate and to connect the local people both with government and with their family members who were working in Bangkok or other parts of the country,  When IPStar launched in 2004 its spot beam technology – approximately 200 transponders narrowly focusable enabled one satellite to increase its coverage approximately twenty fold and lower the price per service proportionally.

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Last Updated on Saturday, 21 August 2010 13:56
 

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