12/7/2007 – Shaking Off the Carbonite Sickness

Anyway, so this domain has been basically frozen in carbonite ever since we got completely blown to smithereens by the Death Star (now fully re-assembled as the “New” AT&T) while building the first all optical gigabit ETTH networks almost a decade ago. Originally conceived as Residential Information Infrastructure Systems, I’ve long since realized that the implications of our vision far exceeded the residential context; although it is indeed the residential context which most ENERGIZES THE NETWORK EDGE to maximize fractal opportunities for innovation by virtually any node on the network.

It’s long been known that Asymmetric bandwidth means Asymmetric Opportunity. Therefore, the cause of Ubiquitous Massive Symmetric Bandwidth (UMSB) has always been equivalent to the cause of igniting and maximizing both individual and societal returns by maximizing the PRODUCTIVITY gains made uniquely possible by the New Net Economy.

Today, I have a half dozen other blogs and all kinds of other interests which productively and thankfully distract me from the absurdity and sheer stupidity of this Let’s Do All We Can to Break the Nethead Network And Make It As Retarded As The Broken Bellhead Network industry. Sand Hill Road had its chance and blew it. Jurvetson, Doer, Cheriton, Beyers and the rest of the supposed A-List all directly turned down the opportunity to rule the new telecom services universe by migrating to all Ethernet, when the window of opportunity to strike was there in 1997-2001. These same geniuses rejected our projections that New Services (as it turns out, GAMING, P2P, WEB APPS, SYMMETRIC VIDEO, VIRTUAL WORLDS) would rule the network and propel demand to perpetually exceed capacity. We didn’t predict WHICH of those would excel, but we absolutely knew without a shadow of doubt that service LIKE THOSE would excel. And to think that I was once intimidated by those tiny little men behind the curtain in the land of Oz. It’s okay, I’ve long since owned that and moved forward.

Still, too many of those has-been icons are still irascible in perpetuating the decade-long delusion that there is supply side “glut” of bandwidth in the U.S., even as User-Generated Video content in the U.S. explodes the demand curve, and performance in countries like Korea, Japan, Singapore, and others utterly blow us away in terms of network capacity and service REVENUES. What used to be intimidation has long turned to diversionary amusement.

So, far from serious, this site’s sole artless and uncultured purpose is to provide an alternative to the occasional South Park re-run by entertaining the author by making fun of the experts — past, present, and future — who got the entire Network Industry wrong by tossing untold billions of dollars into the Coulda Shoulda Woulda But Didn’t circular file of history.

Remember, “If you can’t have fun changing the world for the better, why bother?”