Transcript 20th Century Model - Video Services Forum

20th Century Model
• Build and MAINTAIN
a VOICE Network
• Long Term Planning
• Backward
Compatibility
• Average pricing
concept
• Geographic franchise
Long Term Planning
• 3 - 5 years reaction
time for service
demand
• highly mechanized
systems to reduce unit
cost
• TIRKS
40 Years
• Emphasis on high
quality
• Long useful life
• 2.5% ammortization
Building a “PhoneBox”
• Built like Rock of
Gibralter
• Single Occupant
• Single Owner
• All common space
• External security
• All common power
• Integrated design
Unfriendly Legal Matters
• CarterFone - 1969
• Modified Final
Judgement - 1984
• Judge Harold Greene
• Telecom Act 1996
• FCC Unbundled
Services
What’s in YOUR Wallet?
• Open Network
Architecture
• External Security
• Internal Security
• Expensive
• Unwieldy
• Messy, ugly, etc.
• Not designed for it.
Unbundled Loop
• Spur competition
• Congressional
Direction
• FCC interpretation
• Stifled competition
• Delayed
implementation
• DSL
Video vs. Old Model
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Short Interval
Reactive delivery
Overlay Networks
Specialized Techs,
Tools, Processes
Labor Intensive
Small Base
Double Overhead
TLC Required
New Developments
• Rapid technical
advances
• FCC mandates
• New services are
needed
• Latest delivery vehicle
demanded
Bargains Actively Sought
• Smart and frugal
buyers
• Outsmart tariffs
• Comparison shoppers
• Cancel delivery in
favor of a better deal
Video Services Not Profitable
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Acute specialization
Low volume
No cross application
Double overhead
Demographics
Situation deteriorating
New capital required
Dark Shadows
• The prognosis is grim
• Demographics
• “Sun City, here we
come!”
• Retiring Video
Specialists not
replaced
• New Owners are
entrepeneurs
Old Model Rx
• Get Pro-active
• Increase service base
• Commit to terrestrial
transport
• Contract for services
over a broad area
• 3 - 5 year window
21st Century Model
• It’s all IP
• Data Centers
• Stingers, DSLAM and
the DSL Motel
• Follows the talent
• “Legal” friendly
Data Centers
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Vast capacity
Superb facilities
POWER
SECURITY
• Flexible
accomodations
• Vast array of technical
services
• Vast array of support
services
• APPLICATIONS
support services
Stinger/DSLAM
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SAC locations
Companion cabinets
Commercial Power
Battery back-up
xDSL capable of 20
megabits
• CLEC “guests”
• access to all
distribution cable pairs
• all levels of “feeder”
services available
Qwest = Internet
• Not a Telephone Co.
• Buildings not Single
Family
• OSP not ONA or
“unbundled”
• IP, data, voice, video
• Data Centers designed
to serve “guests”
• Stinger Motels provide
“remote co-location”
Video & 21st Cent. Model
• IP video transport
• Data Centers house
TV applications
• “Pipe” synergies
• Application expertise
• Mainstream transport
• “Future” model
• No longer “fighting
the system
• New technical elite
Video Transport Power
• Emerging needs,
HDTV, Digital
Cinema
• Huge bandwidth
• Volume discounts
• Become a major
market
• Great revenue
potential
• Working Partnerships
VSF 21st Century RX
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Embrace the new model
Lead the industry
Drive the standards to include video
Drive the standards to FEATURE video
Build the boxes