Next Generation Networks

Date & Title	Contents	Content Type
26th July 2007 iPlayer	Pre-launch thoughts on the BBCs service The bandwidth impact on the UK internet
18th July 2007 Leeds Unbundled ISP Backhaul	Part II of the LUI series with Keith McMahon Part I here Analysis of BT's BNS product
17th May 2007 £2.5bn or FTTH?	BT pays dividend instead of saving for FTTH Competition are behind and will not fill gap Why invest when risk is high and RoI poor?
12th April 2007 Slides: How to Make Money from Video	PowerPoint deck summarising the series
3rd April 2007 Part 5: The problem is also how to route the packets	P2P has changed how applications use network Old way of concentrating on building core is inefficient Bandwidth is wasted by tromboning traffic
26th March 2007 Part 3: Managing Traffic Volumes	The traffic shaping measures commonly used How and why ISPs control costs How this empowers them in the value chain
14th November 2006 LLU Conference Notes	Review of IIRs November conference on LLU Link to my slides on economics of LLU
17th October 2006 IP as a Natural Monopoly	The scale benefits of IP. Piece with Stefano Quitarelli Fibre-laying, network routing and P2P economics all favour monopoly provider
10th October 2006 Local Loop Unbundling	Review of the state of the LLU rollout in the UK Challenges faced by providers at that time
6th July 2006 HD TV over IP: Who pays the Bill?	Original piece. Cost of 2hrs 1080p HDTV = £2.10 Shows the economic imperative of multicast TV model vs Internet model

The above articles deal with various aspects of NGNs. Related articles may also be found in the Money section, which deals with telecoms and internet economics, or the IPTV and Joost categories.