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A history of the future of the Internet Ian Graham IT Strategy & Planning www.iangraham.org/talks/. history innovation banking. 1790. Optical Telegraph. Codes. Networks. “WAN” circa 1810.
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A history of the future ofthe Internet Ian Graham IT Strategy & Planning www.iangraham.org/talks/
history innovation banking
“WAN” circa 1810 • In the early 19th century, it was possible to send a short message from Amsterdam to Venice -- in one hour. • …but was limited to military and government communication – not for business, individuals • Did send lottery tickets, though. • Monopolistic • Monolithic
Monolithic application transport network / addressing data link physical
the end... ... electric telegraph terminology still with us, and other legacies...
Telegraph and Railways coordinate traffic synergy value-add resale
Culture abbreviated messages --AB BFT CK IF CHN ATE social networking technology subculture
...and also pre-1914 The “1891” World Network
Separation application transport network / addressing data link physical
application transport network / addressing data link physical
key ideas transport-agnostic computer-agnostic peer-to-peer layered extensible simple
Telnet tcp IPv4 ethernet coax Five Layers application transport network / addressing data link physical
slow growth Number of Domains <100
...it became easy web browser HTML, URLs Web server 1993 – ~56,000 ‘domains’
innovation on all layers application layer transport layer physical and data link layers .... “business” apps on top
N=et 1.2 billion internet users 160 million domains No. of ‘responding’ domains 18,000 342,000
( 1275 DVDs / second ) Physical layer evolution
morecustomers Cost ↓ bandwidth ↑ newservices synergy innovation in and betweenlayers
XML, HTML, ....Web “apps” TCP, UDP, RSVP, .... HTTP, SOAP, VOIP,SSH, IMAP..... IPv4/6, IPSec,.... Ethernet, WiMAX, WiFi, 802.11, ADSL... Fiber, coax, RS-232, twisted pair … birds... Innovation application transport Network... data link physical
Why? independent layers innovation on all layers partnering between layers open standards leverages what’s there customer-focus competition
Lessons? independent layers innovation “right” layers takes time critical threshold unpredictable
Today 1 MBPS home access 50 kBPS wireless 200 GB home storage Tomorrow 100 MBPS home access 10MBPS wireless 10 TB home storage Implications real-time video, everywhere store every second of your life digital ‘web’ overlapping everything
How can we innovate like the Internet?
Monolithic Financial Services Innovative ‘layered’ services
Way out of time!! Questions? http://www.iangraham.org/talks/
From http://www.ipbusinessmag.com/departments.php?department_id=17&article_id=335