[Chapter-delegates] Looking to share NY Chapter events explaining Access networks

[Winthrop Yu]

Hello Dave,

   ISOC-PH would be very interested in several of the proposed video sessions. 
We'll probably have to view the recorded videos asynch not live, as Philippine 
time is 12 hours ahead of US EST. The possibility of interacting (a Q&A) with 
the video session's host would be a major plus.

Do let us know of developments,

WYn


On 10/25/2017 1:57 PM, Dave Burstein wrote:
> Folks
> 
> As a tech reporter for almost 20 years, I get to learn from some of the best. 
> There's a huge gap between what technologists know and what is discussed in policy.
> 
> So I've put in the below proposal to ISOC for a series of six events, webcast 
> from New York, on the most important things to know about access networks. The 
> suggested speakers are very strong, from the Stanford professor who invented 
> MIMO to CTOs of African telcos. One session will be special requirements to 
> reach the last 5%.
> 
> /This is pending funding which I hope we will get./
> 
> The material will be current enough to be interesting to active engineers but I 
> hope to translate the technospeak for a lay audience as well.
> 
> We'd like to work with any chapters interested. In particular, one of the hosts 
> would be delighted to answer questions live after your local presentation of the 
> video. Speaker suggestions welcome as well.
> 
> Better ideas welcome, but my thought is for chapters to show the video (40-50 
> minutes) live or on tape, then do a live Q & A and audience discussion. We'd 
> hope ISOC would cover room rental and a tech if needed.
> 
> Access tech is moving incredibly quickly.
> Jio and Bharti in India are tripling capacity at modest cost with Massive MIMO. 
> Think what tripling caps would do in countries dependent on wireless. Thailand 
> is using 4x4 MIMO for realworld wireless speeds of > 75 megabits.
> These two upgrades in the last year have cheap enough they make sense even in 
> emerging nations. Where applied, they will make a big difference to users and costs.
> 
> In addition, spectrum sharing works (think Wi-Fi plus) which means telcos need 
> less, not more, exclusive spectrum. Shared spectrum generally delivers 2X the 
> capacity, again, important. Almost all spectrum policy needs rethinking to 
> deliver more capacity.
> 
> And so on.
> 
> Email me offlist if you're interested. I'm happy to discuss any of the issues 
> below on list as well. I care about connecting eberyone and have discussed it 
> with true experts.
> 
> Technologies of Access: How to build a great, affordable Internet
> 
> 
> Proposal to present six programs on advanced broadband technology featuring 
> leading engineers, along with 18 interactive sessions, distribution over 
> community and non-profit networks and continued availability.
> 
> 
> This series was inspired by a table at an ISOC event with people from six 
> countries interested in policy. What should the engineers and network people be 
> telling them to guide their policy work?
> 
> 
> We'll present facts on the ground to prove what is practical today. We will 
> follow with world-class engineers to describe what's coming in the next few 
> years. Throughout, we’ll emphasize technologies appropriate throughout the 
> world, with a session dedicated to the special considerations for the last 5% 
> often unserved.
> 
> 
> What we know:
> 
> 
> Networks in 2017 can deliver 75 megabits at consumer prices with the capacity to 
> watch plenty of HD video. Capacity will double by the end of the decade. Those 
> best practices set the goal for networks around the world.
> 
> 
> In Paris, Jennie spent 20 euros for 100 gigabytes of high speed mobile. Across 
> India Ambani sells unlimited voice, texts, and ~20 gigabytes for $6. Most 
> Spanish and Portuguese homes can buy a hundred megabit fiber connection for ~$30.
> 
> 
> These are all commercial offerings, showing what’s practical. Network building 
> today is similar in cities around the world. The goal of these sessions is to 
> explain the technologies used in these networks, to allow policy people to judge 
> whether proposed networks meet today’s best practices.
> 
> 
> Team
> 
> Jennie Bourne, Producer and co-host
> 
> Dave Burstein, Host, writer, and executive producer
> 
> Ms. Bourne and Mr. Burstein have collaborated on numerous projects, including 
> video portraits of the “Father of DSL” John Cioffi and the inventor of MIMO, 
> A.J. Paulraj, for the Marconi Foundation. See their work at 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjvzlYUz9Ro 
> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjvzlYUz9Ro>
> and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdjBU-FxUdE 
> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdjBU-FxUdE>​
> 
> 
> They have co-authored two books, DSL (Wiley) and Web Video: Making It Great, 
> Getting It Noticed (Pearson). Dave is currently working on a book, Gigabit 
> Wireless: 5G, 4G, and Everything In-Between.
> 
> Ms. Bourne has taught at NYU and Rutgers, produced hundreds of videos for the 
> web, and anchored the Nightly News on WBAI-FM, New York. Full resume available 
> on request.
> 
> Mr. Burstein has reported broadband, now including wireless, since 1999 at DSL 
> Prime, Fast Net.news, & Wirelessone.news. His previous work included 18 years of 
> live radio at WBAI-FM, where he won 7 awards from the COmputer Press 
> Association. He is a member of the executive committee of ISOC-NY
> 
> Joly MacFie, Line Producer,  is well known to everyone in ISOC, having produced 
> dozens of videos for ISOC. He is Chair of ISOC-NY. He produces at the non-profit 
> Manhattan Neighborhood Network ...
> 
> Stu Reid, co-host, has been active for thirty years in community networking in 
> Harlem and the South Bronx. He hosts a weekly show, Community & Technology, at 
> WHCR-FM, a non-profit station serving Harlem from the campus of the City University.
> 
> Note: Both Bourne and Reid are African-American. I’ve included several women, 
> Africans, and Asians in the suggested speakers as well.
> 
> Community involvement:
> We would broadcast on Non-profit MNN Cable TV & WHCR-FM.
> 
> We would seek technically knowledgeable speakers from all ISOC chapters. 
> Chapters would be welcome to present the shows, and one of the original Hosts 
> would do a live interactive session for that chapter, using Zoom or similar.
> 
> In the budget, there is a line for outreach to attract more community and media 
> support.
> 
> Further audience: The information in the videos will be solid for 2-3 years, and 
> we will promote for future audiences. (?YouTube and educational outreach.)
> 
> 
> Format:
> 
> Six 51 minute videos produced live to tape, each followed by three sessions for 
> follow up questions on Zoom or similar.
> 
> 
> Session One
> 
> Facts on the ground and what's coming next
> 
> A review of the best commercial offerings around the world, both wired and 
> wireless. On wireless,a close look at India, France, and Myanmar, where advanced 
> 4G LTE has change the economics. On wireline why a gigabit is the standard on 
> any new network.
> 
> Suggested guests
> 
> Marconi Fellow Henry Samueli, Broadcom CTO, who chips are in many of the most 
> advanced wired and wireless networks
> 
> Wireline Tom Starr, Chair of the Broadband Forum and Distinguished Engineer at 
> AT&T, who has led written two textbooks. He has been the leader in standards for 
> 25 years. Marconi Fellow and Stanford Professor Emeritus, “Father of DSL” and 
> one of the early MIMO wireless pioneers.
> 
> Senior wireless network engineer, Africa or Asia
> 
> 
> 
> Session 2
> 
> Today's Gigabit Wireless
> 
> Introducing the four key factors in capacity: Antennas, Density, Spectrum, and 
> software.
> 
> Software includes open source/nfv/SDN.
> 
> Suggested guests
> 
> Stanford Prof Andrea Goldsmith, MIMO and Wi-Fi pioneer
> 
> Stanford Profs Sachin Katti or Guru Parulkar, Open Source pioneers
> 
> 
> Session 3
> 
> Massive MIMO
> 
> A 10x capacity improvement is possible with more antennas. Thousand of cells are 
> being deployed in Japan and China already and Sprint has committed to deploying 
> in the U.S. in 2018.
> 
> Massive MIMO is particularly important where there are few wires, especially 
> Africa and most of South Asia. Currently, consumer priced wireless plans usually 
> have caps of < 25 gigabytes in those areas, and often only 2-5 gigabytes. That 
> allows very little video, a second-rate web experience by today’s standards. 
> Massive MIMO can raise that to 50-150 gigabytes without the expensive extension 
> into millimeter waves.
> 
> Paulraj in 2014 pointed to Massive MIMO as the best way to deliver capacity, 
> especially in rural and suburban areas in less developed countries. The 
> equipment is now reaching the field.
> 
> 
> Suggested guest:
> 
> Stanford Prof A.J. Paulraj, who won the Marconi Prize for the invention of MIMO. 
> He is deeply involved in technology policy in his native India, where he was 
> awarded the Padma Bhushan for his government work.
> 
> Sanyogita Shamsunder, Verizon's director of network planning, who supports both 
> Massive MIMO and mmWave.
> 
> 
> 
> Session 4
> 
> Millimeter Wave 5G for more spectrum
> 
> There is about 15 GHz of readily available spectrum in high frequencies, about 
> ten times as much as the total used today. Huawei and others have demonstrated 
> 20 gigabits (shared) and that could probably be tripled. Verizon is currently 
> testing in 11 cities and will go commercial with mmWave fixed in 2018. Mobile 
> will probably follow in 2019-2021.
> 
> Millimeter wave in most practical deployments has limited reach, requiring a 
> massive number of cells and backhaul for coverage. (The NY Times estimates 
> Verizon would need over a million cells to cover most of the U.S.) Most 
> deployments will only make sense where population is dense. (MIMO has much 
> greater reach at high speeds.)
> 
> 
> Suggested guest:
> 
> Prof Ted Rappaport, NYU, whose tests convinced the world that Millimeter Wave 
> Will Work!
> 
> An engineer from one of the major Asian carriers now starting to deploy. NTT 
> DOCOMO CTO Seizo Onoe would be my first choice. He speaks English, but we’d 
> probably need to add subtitles as well.
> 
> 
> 
> Session 5
> 
> Sharing to bring down costs
> 
> One network is cheaper than two. Two networks are cheaper than four. Around the 
> world, sharing is rapidly becoming the norm for cost effective deployment, 
> especially in rural areas. Mexico is leading the way (Red Compartida) and nearly 
> all African planning assumes shared networks.
> 
> W-Fi has demonstrated shared spectrum can usually deliver 2-5 times as much 
> effectively capacity, particularly important where wires are few.
> 
> 
> Suggested guests:
> 
> Prof Henning Schulzrinne of Columbia, recently chief technologist of the FCC, 
> who has predicted that almost all future spectrum will be shared.
> 
> Prof Bitange Ndemo, former Permanent Secretary of Kenya's Ministry of 
> Information and Communication, who offered an innovative plan.
> 
> 
> Session 6
> 
> Special Considerations for the most rural 5%
> 
> Myanmar and India are soon to cover 95% with LTE, but that won’t solve the 
> problems of the remaining areas. Massive MIMO, inexpensive long range Wi-FI, 
> solar powered cell sites and other innovations can make a difference.
> 
> 
> Suggested guests:
> 
> Thibaud Rerolle, CTO of Safaricom, Kenya
> 
> Alphonzo Samuels, CTO, Telkom South Africa.
> (I’ve discussed this topic with both. They have innovative ideas.)
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------
> 
> Dave and Jennie have interviewed all the suggested guests, often on live video, 
> except Stanford Profs Sachin Katti and Guru Parulkar. We should expect positive 
> responses from almost all or a peer if the project is approved.
> 
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