The Industry in Metamorphosis - The Customer Becomes the Network:

Volume Eight of an Annual Handbook on the Commercial Internet's Business, Technology and Management Issues

The Past Year of the COOK Report March 2002 through February 2003

The COOK Report Annual Handbooks provide vital reference material in the form of a handbook that can assist Internet and telecommunication technical and investment strategists. For Volume 8 - The Customer Becomes the Network? (circa 650 pages) we offer the March 2002 and the following five subject symposium style issues as published in six large pdf files.

• March 2002 - Internet Performance Measurement

  Detailed (23 pages) discussion of Matrix NetSystems Internet performance measurement. John Quarterman and Peter Salus explain how they apply their measurement techniques to the requirements of business clients. Pointers to software defined radios, optical switching tutorial, and article by Froomkin and lemley: ICANN and Antitrust. State of the Internet 2002 Review. Part 2 of Dave Hughes Anatomy of a Small Revolution. - 52 pages http://cookreport.com/10.12.shtml

• April May 2002 -- Why the LECs Will Go Bankrupt

  Part One of a combined special issue on the Future of the Industry. Roxane Googin on why the LECs are "doomed". Commentary by Andrew Odlyzko, Bill Klein and David Isenberg. http://cookreport.com/11.01.shtml

  Part Two of a combined special issue on the Future of the Industry. In this part we look at the IXC's and greenfield players like Level 3. These companies are trapped under a mountain of debt and glut of bandwidth. We examine Level 3 closely including an interview with L3 Vice Pres. of Investor Relations. The bandwidth problem is so bad that IRU sales for dark fiber are dead and for lightwaves very likely greatly limited. We show why the industry has effectively run out of "gas" and will be very difficult to re-ignite. We define an asset based scenario that could lead the way out of the current situation. Comments by Telcordia, Andrew Odlyzko, Bill Klein, Bill St. Arnaud - - combined issue - 82 pages http://cookreport.com/11.02.shtml

• June - July 2002 -- Wireless Technology and Policy

  A combined issue on the technologies of no license wireless, including 802.11b. Extended discussion of regulation and FCC policy or lack of same. Interview with Peter Cochrane, former CTO British telecom. Overview of non wi-fi technologies by Steve Stroh. Exhaustive discussion of these technologies as a possible replacement for the local loop. Contributors to this symposium who discuss technolgy as well as regulatory issues are David P Reed, Dave Hughes, Dewayne Hendricks, David Isenberg, Jim Forster, Robert Berger, Peter Cochrane and Roxane Googin. - Combined issue is 112 pages http://cookreport.com/11.03-04.shtml

• Aug - Sept - Oct 2002 Asset Based Telecom and fiber to the home architectures

  A combined issue on Asset Based Telecom. As the center goes bankrupt municipalities are beginning to build fiber and wireless based broadband networks. When the industry revives it will do so from asset based edges as users will come to own their own networks. This rebuilding will increasingly involve fiber to the home. In a symposium with 20 experts from all aspects of these developments, we look at the critical role that finding the right architecture will play in the industries future. Combined issue including October referenced below is 178 pages in length. http://cookreport.com/11.05-06.shtml

  This third part (October) contains interviews with Bernard Daines of World Wide Packets, Bill St Arnaud and other new material. http://cookreport.com/11.07.shtml

• Nov Dec 2002 -- Economics and technology of Peering and Transit

  A two part combined issue on peering and transit. Farooq Hussain describes the broken policy of the Tier 1 oligopoly. Bill Woodcock explains a methodology for Peering and transit decisions that can enable smaller ISPs to prosper. Interview includes the first description of netflow data for Synthetic path construction. From pages 28 - 83 A Mini Encyclopedia of the Economics, Politics and Technology of Internet Interconnections -- Our Experts Discuss Architecture, Traffic Flows, Transit and Bandwidth Costs, as Well as Market Economics. Interview with Roxane Googin on .13 Micron Technology. Article on ICANN's paranoia. How Michael Froomkin's well reasoned analysis of ICANN's demetia drove Joe Sims to distraction. The RIAA runs amok and a net architect mistakenly defends them. - 118 pages http://cookreport.com/11.08-09.shtml

• January - February 2003 Under Impact of VoIP Enterprise leaves the PSTN

  The Enterprise Leaves the PSTN. The full two part issue contains an extended discussion of issues VoIP in the Enterprise and VoIPs impact on the arbitrage of international rates. It gives also a detailed overview of ENUM issues and the development of VoIP, ENUM, VISION NG activities in Europe. Additional articles discuss neutral attachment to IP networks, and the progress of extreme broadband. An extensive write up of asset based telecom in the Khumbu (Mt Everest area of Nepal). Lessig's 1998 ICANN prophecy. 107 pages http://cookreport.com/11.10-11.shtml

  For existing subscribers, the annual handbook has become a means of organizing all the material from past newsletters for reference and review. For many others, it serves as a valuable introduction to the COOK Report.

  The Customer Becomes the Network:

  2002 COOK Report Interviews

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