Welcome to the Cook Report on Internet Protocol
A Practical Navigator for the Internet Economy
We re now in our twenty fourth year of publication. (Our first issue was April 1992.) We publish 6 times a year - long in depth reports on subjects of intense personal intertest. Meanwhile our most important revenue producing operation is the offering of a private subscription only forum now in its eleventh year. The Forum is a mail list called the Architecture and Economics of IP Networks. It is a community of interest where more than 100 members discuss issues and trade ideas. I do not screen posts in advance. Foir more informatrion see the menu item "Business Model and Mail List Policy."
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 February 2018
The COOK Report for February 2018 Introduction
On January 18 2018 the Cook Report interviewed two members of the arch econ list. one an old hand the other Isfandiyar Shaheen from Pakistan and a vc working in the wireless world at Facebook. We offer the following look at what we believe is a very informative overview of a rapidly changing world of the technology and economics of IP networks. Cook: The first question I have for Isfandayar is how did you get involved with wire-less?
Shaheen: I was managing a private equity firm in Pakistan in 2014 -15 and at that time I was thinking about the problem of how to minimize food wastage in Pakistan. For context, one fourth of Pakistan's GDP comes from agriculture. Almost half the labor force is employed by agriculture and about one-third of our agricultural produce goes to waste every year because of insufficient number of temperature controlled warehouses located around the country. So that was my starting point and I started thinking about where can I find a number of distributed assets that have access to power and are located around the country?
Click HERE for the full February 2018 PDF issue of The Cook Report