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Is Universal Broadband Service Impossible?Broadband Internet service is widely expected to be the fundamental universal service for the 21st century. But more than a decade of national and international struggles to close the digital divide between broadband haves and have nots suggest that reaching global universality will be a very difficult task. This paper argues that the strong guarantees made by the current broadband paradigm - low latency and constant availability - are unnecessary obstacles to its adoption as an affordable and universal digital service. We show that there is nonetheless a plausible strategy for deploying a Basic Broadband service that does not require such guarantees and is able to offer, at reasonable cost, almost all the critical and valuable services and applications currently delivered over low latency broadband, synchronous telepresence excepted.
Is Universal Broadband Service Impossible?
Universal Digital Services Through Basic Broadband |
The Hedge Podcast Episode 150: Universal Broadband
A discussion of whether a modified form of broadband connectivity be more cheaply and easily deployed to the entire world.
Deployment Scalability in Exposed Buffer Processing Micah Beck 17th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Smart Systems (MASS 2020) Delhi NCR, India, December 10-13, 2020 (Virtual conference) |
IEEE MASS 2020 presentation, December 2020 |
"On The Hourglass Model" Micah Beck Communications of the ACM, July 2019, Vol. 62 No. 7, Pages 48-57. |
Communications of the ACM, July 2019 |
Exposed Buffer Architecture for Continuum Convergence Micah Beck & Terry Moore arXiv:2008.00989, Aug 2020 |
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