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integrated services, but every one needs a service provider to carry the bits.
Expansion of wikis and knowledge bases: Once, telecom made great profits by being the sole supplier of information to its users via “yellow pages” – phone directories organized by commercial service subject and providing space proportionate to advertising charges. Now this business has largely migrated to the edge Internet companies, although some phone companies persist in delivering big paper books that quickly end up in the recycling box. These new Edge-based services are good for the consumer, but all that information on the edge of the network is now outside a service provider’s revenue sphere.
Another example of the SPs being by-passed in the knowledge industry is the placement of the Library of Congress image collection on-line, a new use for another innovative OTT service. From the Library of Congress Blog: “… it is so exciting to let people know about the launch of a brand-new pilot project the Library of Congress is undertaking with Flickr, the enormously popular photo-sharing site that has been a Web 2.0 innovator.… the project will help address at least two major challenges: how to ensure better and better access to our collections, and how to ensure that we have the best possible information about those collections for the benefit of researchers and posterity. … The real magic comes when the power of the Flickr community takes over. We want people to tag, comment, and make notes on the images, just like any other Flickr photo, which will benefit not only the community but also the collections themselves.”
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Before long, there will be vast arrays of sensors feeding thousands of network computers in one global communications web, and traditional service providers will carry the bits. |
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Such devices can create and auto-negotiate their own overlay VPN – even using multiple provider networks.
People who use OTT VoIP services must have noticed how generally audio quality has improved steadily since the earlier days. Much of that improvement can be credited to edge intelligence: smarter and faster CODECs at the paying subscriber’s edge, and digital signal processing implemented by the OTT service providers, not within the network core.
Once again we can see how edge smarts can reduce or eliminate reliance on the capabilities of the network to deliver valued services.
Sensor and camera grids: We have seen the importance of video surveillance networks in London and other major cities in areas like traffic management and public safety. Increasingly, cities will turn to deployment of these network-connected devices. Breakthroughs are occurring in industrial sensors. Besides monitoring, they will be deployed in control systems requiring stringent network quality standards, for example municipal water systems and power systems.
Sensor networks are one part of pervasive computing, as are smart homes and supply chain package readers. “The emergence of
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Policy-driven, intelligent CPE: An enterprise customer can now independently buy network connection hardware that builds their own VPN network and adjusts itself to optimally route packets. The point is to prioritize and route packet flows for the good of the edge applications, not for the efficiency of the service provider network. (Which is not necessarily how network service providers currently use policy-based VPNs.) |
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sensor networks consisting of a large number of resource limited sensors, and ad hoc networks, in which wireless roaming devices result in continuing changes in network layout can be considered the backbone of future pervasive systems…. These complex and untraditional networks necessitate
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