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16/08/2007 - NEM Strategic Research Agenda Version 5.0 approved in June 2007 - is available now for download on the NEM website: http://www.nem-initiative.org 31/07/2007 - Optical Fibres and Cables for the Access Networks Overview paper presented at OECC 2007 (Yokohama) by G. Kuyt (Draka Comteq & ITU-T SG15/Q10 Rapporteur) http://www.ist-bread.org/pdf/Draka%20Comteq%20Invited%20paper%20OECC-IOOC%202007_11C3-3.PDF 09/07/2007 - Bandwidth demand driving FTTH in Europe New analysis from market research firm Frost & Sullivan finds that FTTH deployments reached over 2.5 million homes in 2006. The company estimates the number of fibered homes to reach over 14 million by 2012. http://lw.pennnet.com/display_article/297386/13/ARTCL/none/XMARK/Bandwidth-demand-driving-FTTH-in-Europe/?dcmp=LWEENL 04/07/2007 - The Effects of Broadband Deployment on Output and Employment: A Cross-sectional Analysis of U.S. Data A new Brookings Institution study, by researchers Robert Crandall, William Lehr, and Robert Litan, akes a hard look at the economic effects of broadband deployment (via CAnet) http://www3.brookings.edu/views/papers/crandall/200706litan.pdf 01/07/2007 - And now the French Web 2.0 Wave France leads Europe in its enthusiasm for Web 2.0 startups, an industry that has doubled in size across the continent since 2005 (via CAnet) http://gigaom.com/2007/07/01/france-web20/ 22/05/2007 - Report from the OECD Workshop on The economic and social impacts of broadband communications: From ICT measurement to policy implications This workshop reviewed studies of the impacts of broadband roll-out and use on: a) economic performance at aggregate level and in the business sector, and b) the geographical distribution of economic activity and employment, content producers and users, and on households http://www.oecd.org/document/48/0,2340,en_2649_34223_38697712_1_1_1_1,00.html 22/05/2007 - Internet Traffic Prioritisation The Internet is very efficient for quickly routing large amounts of data but it was not designed to provide the guaranteed quality of service or security that many current Internet applications now require. http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/43/63/38405781.pdf 22/05/2007 - OECD Latest BB Statistics Over the past year, the number of broadband subscribers in the OECD increased 26% from 157 million in December 2005 to 197 million in December 2006. http://www.oecd.org/document/7/0,2340,en_2649_33703_38446855_1_1_1_1,00.html 25/04/2007 - Super-fast Internet connections with existing cable-TV networks The EUREKA E!3051 VIRTUAL FIBRE project has resulted in super-fast Internet connections over existing cable TV networks with no need for a consumer modem. http://cordis.europa.eu/wire/index.cfm?fuseaction=article.Detail&rcn=13390 12/04/2007 - OECD-Report on Participative Web: User-created content This study describes the rapid growth of UCC (user-created content), its increasing role in worldwide communication and draws out implications for policy. http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/57/14/38393115.pdf?contentId=38393116 23/03/2007 - OECD Report on Fixed-Mobile Convergence: Market Developments and Policy Issues This paper provides an overview of the evolution towards fixed-mobile convergence (FMC). This evolution is driven by declining average revenues per user in both the mobile and fixed markets, and competition from other technologies, as well as from voice over Internet Protocol services. FMC will be facilitated by the adoption of Next Generation Networks in which all communications traffic uses Internet Protocol. http://www.ist-bread.org/pdf/FMC_07_03_23.pdf 20/03/2007 - BB Europe 2007 BBEurope 2007 will take place in Antwerp, Belgium from 3-6 December. Presentations from previous BBEurope events are now available to all participants. http://www.bbeurope.org 13/03/2007 - Fiber to the Home Architectures A white paper from Cisco on the pros and cons of various FTTh architectures (via canarie.ca) http://www.ist-bread.org/pdf/FTTH%20Architectures.pdf 14/02/2007 - IGI Consulting publishes the Fourth Quarter 2006 High-Speed Access Report A PDF copy of the full report can be downloaded for free at igigroup.com http://igigroup.com/holliday/4Q06.pdf 09/02/2007 - Addressing the Future Internet The National Science Foundation of the United States and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development held a joint workshop on January 31, 2007 to consider the social and economic factors shaping the future of the Internet. The presentations and position papers from the Workshop are available online. http://www.circleid.com/posts/addressing_the_future_internet/ 31/01/2007 - NSF/OECD Workshop “Social and Economic Factors Shaping the Future of the Internet The Workshop brought together a group of experts, economists, policy-makers, social scientists and technologists, to consider factors relating to the future of the Internet. http://www.oecd.org/document/59/0,2340,en_2649_34223_37921851_1_1_1_1,00.html 24/01/2007 - Cable Confronts Bandwidth Crunch An article from Lightreading on the bandwidth challenges facing cable companies http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=115344&print=true 10/01/2007 - CELTIC News A CELTIC Newsflash has been issued and can be directly accessed here. www.celtic-initiative.org/Newsflash/2007-01-10Newsflash.asp 09/01/2007 - A New Way to look at Networking - Google Research Video Today's research community congratulates itself for the success of the internet and passionately argues whether circuits or datagrams are the One True Way. Meanwhile the list of unsolved problems grows. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6972678839686672840&q=engedu 08/01/2007 - Broadband for growth, innovation and competitiveness In April 2004 the Government´s IT Policy Strategy Group set up a working group on IT infrastructure and broadband. The primary task of the working group has been to support the Strategy Group by working, within the framework of a free market, for futureproof, accessible, competitionneutral, technologyneutral and coherent electronic communications networks, which are capable of meeting the challenges of the future. This report summarises the discussions and proposals. http://www.regeringen.se/sb/d/6320/a/73823 07/01/2007 - A-BARD Policy Briefing A-BARD (Analysing Broadband Access for Rural Development) is a 2 year EU Coordination Action project (2005-2006), that is researching rural broadband provision and use. It is part of the Scientific Support to Policies (SSP) in the EU FP6 ftp://www.ist-bread.org/pdf/A-BARD/A-BARD%2520D5.2.6%2520Brussels%2520Workshop%2520Report%2520Nov06.pdf 06/12/2006 - Why the Internet only just works Paper by M Handley in BT Technology Journal • Vol 24 No 3 • July 2006. The core Internet protocols have not changed significantly in more than a decade, in spite of exponential growth in the number of Internet users and the speed of the fastest links. http://www.ist-bread.org/pdf/only-just-works.pdf 22/11/2006 - Euro-NGI - A view on Future Communications Euro-NGI delivered, as a deliverable, a document entitled “A vision on future communications”. http://www.ist-bread.org/pdf/Euro_NGI_vision.pdf 21/10/2006 - Next Generation Networks: Evolution and Policy Considerations”, OECD Foresight Forum, 3 October 2006 The OECD Technology Foresight Forum on NGN focuses on the benefits they can bring for social and economic development. http://www.oecd.org/document/12/0,2340,en_2649_33703_37392780_1_1_1_1,00.html 21/10/2006 - Latest OECD Broadband Statistics Over the past year, the number of broadband subscribers in the OECD increased 33% from 136 million in June 2005 to 181 million in June 2006 http://www.oecd.org/document/9/0,2340,en_2649_33703_37529673_1_1_1_1,00.html 16/08/2006 - New working version of the NEM Strategic Research Agenda NEM Steering Board has issued a new working version of the NEM Strategic Research Agenda document (Version 4.0), which is available on the website. http://www.nem-initiative.org 27/07/2006 - NEM Big Challenges Steering Board of the NEM Initiative has issued a working version of "NEM Big Challenges" document, presenting the key issues to be addressed by concrete actions taken within NEM European Technology. http://www.nem-initiative.org 11/07/2006 - Routing Integrity in a World of Bandwidth-on-demand This paper describes the impact of prevalent Bandwidth on Demand services on existing routing technologies and policies in the European region (Terena) http://www.terena.nl/events/tnc2006/programme/presentations/show.php?pres_id=242 01/07/2006 - BT futurologist says companies require 'deep thinking' Wireless will disrupt the fixed-line paradigm, telcos will stop selling bandwidth and become abstracted VAS providers and trusted third parties (via America's Network) http://www.americasnetwork.com/americasnetwork/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=330556&pageID=1&sk=&date= 01/06/2006 - Mobile handset market booming A recent report from Telecom Trends International pegged the worldwide wireless headset market at $117.2 billion last year, a 14.9% increase over 2004 (via America's Network) http://www.americasnetwork.com/americasnetwork/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=330560 12/05/2006 - U.S. Continues to Tread Water in Global Broadband Adoption In a new policy brief, the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation has analyzed the new OECD broadband adoption statistics and what they tell us about U.S. broadband performance. http://www.ist-bread.org/reports.asp 13/04/2006 - FCC releases data on High Speed Services for Internet Access Washington, D.C. – The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today released new data on high-speed connections to the Internet in the United States. http://www.ist-bread.org/pdf/FCC/USFCCBroadbandReportApril2006.pdf 12/04/2006 - Optical Transport Networks (OTN) Technical Trends and Assessment This paper is a joint work of the VDE/ITG study group “photonic networks” and deals with the evolution of transport networks beyond SDH. http://www.vde.com/NR/rdonlyres/284E2387-0D58-4302-9BB2-70CFC383BFF1/14356/ITGPosipapOTN.pdf 18/03/2006 - The Implications of WiMAX for Competition and Regulation A report prepared by Taylor Reynolds of the OECD’s Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry. It is published under the responsibility of the Secretary-General of the OECD. http://www.ist-bread.org/pdf/WiMax.pdf 15/03/2006 - The Future of the Internet Presentations available from a recently held workshop at the OECD http://www.ist-bread.org/events_item.asp?id=168 20/02/2006 - The Broadband Incentive Problem A white paper prepared by the Broadband Working Group MIT Communications Futures Program (CFP) Cambridge University Communications Research Network http://cfp.mit.edu/groups/broadband/docs/2005/Incentive_Whitepaper_09-28-05.pdf 20/02/2006 - Measuring Broadband's Economic Impact A paper from MIT and Carnegie-Mellon on measuring the economic impact of broadband. (via www.canarie.ca) http://www.broadbandproperties.com/2005issues/dec05issues/Measuring%20Broadband%20Eco%20Impact,%20Lehr,%20Gilett,%20Sirbu.pdf 09/02/2006 - eHealth Newsletter A new eHealth e-Newsletter from the ICT Health unit at the EU Commission http://europa.eu.int/information_society/newsroom/cf/news.cfm?tpa_id=23 22/01/2006 - What does it take to get Good video telephony Video telephony is one of the most appealing possibilities promised by broadband Internet. There are huge advantages to being in a telephone call and being able to see the other person. http://www.citynet.nl/upload/What-does-it-take-to-get-good-videotelephony.pdf 21/01/2006 - CoCombine Reports New and forthcoming CoCombine Pulications. They represent an important contribution to the Internet Antitrust Debate http://www.ist-bread.org/fp6_projects.asp?page=99 06/01/2006 - The Missing Link - Broadband Access Networks A Tutorial-type of paper, originating from Univ. of Essex, one of the BREAD-partners on Broadband Access networks, the home user and required technologies. http://www.ist-bread.org/pdf/BREAD_Tutorial_AccessNetworks.pdf 19/10/2005 - The opportunities and challenges of converging technologies As individual disciplines in their own right, information and communication technologies (ICT), biotechnologies and, increasingly, nanotechnologies, are transforming the way that many people live, presenting both opportunities and threats to society. http://www.ntnu.no/2020/pdf/final_report_en.pdf 31/08/2005 - BREAD Deliverable D2.2-3.2 Available The second deliverable of the BREAD-project is avialble. It is a multi-technological analysis of the ‘broadband for all’ concept, with an update of the listing of multi-technological key issues, a first gap analysis and first roadmaps on how to tackle these issues. http://www.ist-bread.org/about_bread.asp?page=131 03/08/2005 - Digital Divide Forum Report: Broadband Access and Public Support in Under-Served Areas This Digital Divide Forum (DDF) report analyses the territorial broadband digital divide in Europe and possible EU initiatives to bridge this gap. http://europa.eu.int/information_society/eeurope/i2010/docs/implementation/ddf_report_final.pdf 11/07/2005 - Check the Each month, "Tech Focus" selects a specific topic within communications, and offers members and visitors free access to selected peer-reviewed articles from ComSoc magazines, journals, and conference proceedings. This month, the "Tech Focus" on VoIP includes 25 papers. http://www.comsoc.org/tech_focus/index.html 06/06/2005 - Broadband Penetration from the ITU ITU has just released its new statistics on global broadband penetration per 100 inhabitants. http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/newslog/ITUs+New+Broadband+Statistics+For+1+January+2005.aspx 13/04/2005 - Public reports related to eEurope Action Plan Here you can find reports related to eEurope Action Plan, including Broadband Digital Divide (see folder Broadband). http://europa.eu.int/information_society/eeurope/2005/all_about/advisory_group/documents/index_en.htm 07/04/2005 - IEEE White Paper on Gigabit Networks IEEE-USA-CCIP White Paper on Providing Ubiquitous Gigaband Networks in the US. http://www.ist-bread.org/Word/GigabandWhitePaperDraft~rev2.doc 27/10/2004 - Commission Staff Working Document on VoIP The document is a background paper that seeks for comments on VoIP regulation and the application of EU Directives http://europa.eu.int/information_society/topics/ecomm/doc/useful_information/library/commiss_serv_doc/406_14_voip_consult_paper_v2_1.pdf 15/10/2004 - Connecting Europe at High Speed: National Broadband Strategies Commission Staff Working Paper available. ftp://www.ist-bread.org/pdf/Connecting%20Europe%20at%20High%20Speed%20-%20National%20Broadband%20Strategies.pdf 14/09/2004 - Shaping the BB Society Now available: presentations from "The 1st International Workshop on Shaping the Broadband Society - users and services (SBS 2004)" 24-25 August - Setúbal, Portugal http://www.ist-bread.org/events_item.asp?id=41 22/07/2004 - The IPTS Report - Issue 85 - July 2004 The IPTS of the The Joint Research Centre has published a special issue on "Building the information Society in Europe: the contribution of socio-economic research" http://www.jrc.es/home/report/english/articles/vol85/welcome.htm 12/07/2004 - Reports from the European Copmmission 12 July 2004 - 3 new reports from the European Commission available! http://www.ist-bread.org/reports.asp?page=93 11/07/2004 - IP Telephony Cookbook (TERENA Report) The IP Telephony Cookbook was developed as the final deliverable of the TERENA IP Telephony project as a reference document for setting up IP Telephony solutions at university campuses and NRENs. http://www.terena.nl/library/IPTELEPHONYCOOKBOOK/ 05/06/2004 - BREAD deliverable D2.1-3.1 available This report is a combined deliverable on the multi-technological and multi-disciplinary analysis of the “broadband for all” concept with focus on the ‘state of the art’. http://www.ist-bread.org/reports.asp?page=37 02/07/2001 - Fiber Optics for Government and Public Broadband: A Feasibility Study A report, prepared for the city of San Francisco detailing various fiber to the X architectures for the city's internal needs as well as to the home (via CAnet - news) http://www.ist-bread.org/pdf/San%20Francisco%20-%20SFFiberFeasibility.pdf |
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