Conferences - Reinforcement Papers - Dublin, Ireland

Digital Infrastructures: Megaflops and Microwonders
July 18-19, 2001
The Berkeley Court
Dublin, Ireland

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1.	The n-Dimensional Superswitch by Josh McHugh

Speaker Larry Roberts, Chairman and Chief Technology Officer of Caspian Networks, discusses his company’s product, the Apeiro, in this Wired Magazine profile. It’s an optical, intelligent, IP superswitch for directing Internet traffic that he says will replace traditional routers from companies like Cisco and Juniper.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.05/caspian.html (7 pages)

After examining historical pricing models for communications, including ordinary mail, telegraph, and telephone, speaker Andrew Odlyzko suggests that we should strive for pricing simplicity in Internet communications (because that’s what the customer wants), even at the cost of efficiency
http://www.ttivanguard.com/dublin/internetpricing.pdf (8 pages)

Using current and historical spending figures and activities, Andrew Odlyzko argues that connectivity is more important than content, and that this current preoccupation by decision makers is not a new one. He then discusses the implications for the architecture of the Internet, including wireless technologies.
http://www.ttivanguard.com/dublin/contentking.pdf (28 pages)

India currently has about one-eighth the telephone and Internet connections it needs. Speaker Ashok Jhunjhunwala examines the bottlenecks in rapid telecom expansion, suggests solutions, looks at some of India’s R&D efforts, and assesses policy issues which need to be addressed.
http://www.tenet.res.in/Papers/unleash.html (20 pages)

The concepts of and differences between the rigid and adaptive styles of computing are examined, along with a discussion of the limitations of today’s ASIC, FPGA, microprocessor, and DSP-based solutions. The solution: adaptive computing machines able to satisfy the power and efficiency requirements of 3G and 4G handheld products.
http://www.ttivanguard.com/dublin/rigidcomputing.pdf (11 pages)

Examining what he calls the zero-cost, zero-power, zero-delay, zero-volume, and leading-edge wedge segments of the embedded systems market, the author, QuickSilver Technology’s chief scientist, suggests that mobile devices can benefit from programmable logic devices and adaptable computing machines.
http://www.ttivanguard.com/dublin/dspdeath.pdf (10 pages)

Vanguard Advisory Board member Peter Cochrane sees no business model that makes 3G pay for itself, and questions whether 3G services will have the same fate as ISDN and WAP. Nonetheless, he offers five options to save what he terms the current over-hyped, over-complex, and overpriced situation.
http://www.ttivanguard.com/dublin/3gsidelined.doc (3 pages)

Recent mobile subscriber statistics show some interesting trends, and Tero Kuittinen examines these with particular emphasis on Latin America, where the adoption rate of TDMA (and GSM in other markets) is seriously challenging CDMA technology.
http://www.ttivanguard.com/dublin/trickymobile.doc (3 pages)