The Internet: a Paradigmatic Rupture in Cumulative Telecom Evolution |
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Authors: | KAVASSALIS, PETROS SOLOMON, RICHARD JAY BENGHOZI, PIERRE-JEAN |
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Affiliation: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Research Program on Communications Policy (RPCP) Cambridge, MA, USA 1CNRS, Centre de Recherche en Gestion (CRG) de lEcole Polytechnique Paris, France |
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Abstract: | The paper investigates the impact the Internet may have in theevolution of telecommunications networks. First, we show whythe Internet, emerging from a different cognitive perceptionof the data communication problem, has led to a new networkarchitecture based on: (i) the distribution of the networkintelligence to the user equipment; (ii) the very cost-effectivestatistical sharing of the network resources (i.e. getting the whole bandwidth of the network for short periodsof time); (iii) the establishment of an Internet Protocol (IP)gateway facilitating interoperability betweenheterogeneous infrastructure facilitiesinstead of theoperatorcontrolled homogeneity of the telecom networks;and (iv) an adaptative way for open standardssetting.Second, we suggest that two technological trajectories (telecomcreative accumulation and Internetcreativedestruction) should dynamically co-exist henceforth andcompete for market sharespossibly during later evolutionarystages generating relatively different national or even localized(e. g. local providers) trajectories of evolution (with differinginterfaces and standards). Furthermore, we explore the questionof whether the Internets interoperability model may bea useful policy paradigm for future information infrastructures,and we start to discuss the implications of requisite interoperabilityon the comunications industrys structure itself. Overall,our preliminary observations raise questions about the possibilitiesof two technological trajectories co-existing,and the relationship between the interoperability and learningconditions in the network industries. |
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