Comments on: Cuban's Theory & The Internet Infrastructure Questions http://gigaom.com/2007/08/28/cubans-theory-the-internet-infrastructure-questions/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:38:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Kishore Jethanandani http://gigaom.com/2007/08/28/cubans-theory-the-internet-infrastructure-questions/#comment-178838 Thu, 20 Mar 2008 05:58:11 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/08/28/cubans-theory-the-internet-infrastructure-questions/#comment-178838 Oh, my God, I can’t understand this obsession with bandwidth in the last mile in this day and age. At the time of the Internet, it was an issue. But now you have WiMAX. The carriers themselves are laying fiber-optics in the last mile.

]]> By: Kishore Jethanandani http://gigaom.com/2007/08/28/cubans-theory-the-internet-infrastructure-questions/#comment-178837 Thu, 20 Mar 2008 05:10:43 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/08/28/cubans-theory-the-internet-infrastructure-questions/#comment-178837 Joel said something interesting about innovations that go beyond Web 2.0 and the need for greater interactivity, virtual applications, etc.

Times Square in New York has a lot of that. You can interact with the giant screens, do polls, etc. Ad Age had some fascinating articles on that. London’s buses have LCD screens on their side and they are interactive. You could manage information about emergencies or critical situations on them. So if a terrorist bomb went off, people in the vicinity could come and help. How about the humble Yard Sign showing up on a LCD screen on the side of a bus–what is that going to do to get the word around about homes.

I find this comment about shortage of bandwidth ironical. Just a few years back it was said that there is enough bandwidth to last 50 years. That the dark fiber can be lighted to meet increasing demand at very little incremental cost.

]]> By: NewTeeVee Live: Can the network cope with Internet TV? | last100 http://gigaom.com/2007/08/28/cubans-theory-the-internet-infrastructure-questions/#comment-178836 Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:14:29 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/08/28/cubans-theory-the-internet-infrastructure-questions/#comment-178836 [...] while it’s not the first time that Malik has pondered whether or not the back-end infrastructure is up to the task of supporting continued online [...]

]]> By: Tellabs CEO Resignation Reflects the Sad State of the Telecom Industry « GigaOM http://gigaom.com/2007/08/28/cubans-theory-the-internet-infrastructure-questions/#comment-178835 Thu, 08 Nov 2007 20:00:48 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/08/28/cubans-theory-the-internet-infrastructure-questions/#comment-178835 [...] Cuban’s Theory & Internet Infrastructure Problems [...]

]]> By: weekly blog chat - mourning internet infrastructure | MIC & NTT | more « Iain’s Chips & Tech http://gigaom.com/2007/08/28/cubans-theory-the-internet-infrastructure-questions/#comment-178834 Sun, 21 Oct 2007 15:32:07 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/08/28/cubans-theory-the-internet-infrastructure-questions/#comment-178834 [...] the topic shows up later in Om Malik’s Cuban’s Theory & Internet Infrastructure which extends Marc Cuban’s, “The Internet is Dead and Boring – Blog Maverick & The [...]

]]> By: John Roese’s Blog » Blog Archive » iPhone: The REAL Impact http://gigaom.com/2007/08/28/cubans-theory-the-internet-infrastructure-questions/#comment-178833 Thu, 06 Sep 2007 17:25:33 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/08/28/cubans-theory-the-internet-infrastructure-questions/#comment-178833 [...] recently had a great discussion with Om Malik of GigaOM blog fame. Our dialog was on a broader discussion around Mark Cuban’s recent statements that the Internet is Dead, but in the course of the dialog [...]

]]> By: DK http://gigaom.com/2007/08/28/cubans-theory-the-internet-infrastructure-questions/#comment-178832 Tue, 04 Sep 2007 20:32:05 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/08/28/cubans-theory-the-internet-infrastructure-questions/#comment-178832 Could someone please explain to me why, if symmetrical high-bandwidth is a prerequisite for a new class of internet applications, why aren’t we seeing these being launched in places like Japan, France and Germany, in cities that already have this deployed?

-DK

]]> By: A Man & His 100 Mbps Fiber Connected Life « GigaOM http://gigaom.com/2007/08/28/cubans-theory-the-internet-infrastructure-questions/#comment-178831 Sun, 02 Sep 2007 18:43:45 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/08/28/cubans-theory-the-internet-infrastructure-questions/#comment-178831 [...] comments dovetail with my post from last week about Internet Infrastructure. It wasn’t an “Internet is broken” dooms day post. Instead it was an attempt to point out [...]

]]> By: Nick Hawkins http://gigaom.com/2007/08/28/cubans-theory-the-internet-infrastructure-questions/#comment-178830 Fri, 31 Aug 2007 19:28:33 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/08/28/cubans-theory-the-internet-infrastructure-questions/#comment-178830 Cuban’s not for everyone. I will give him mad props for selling out to Yahoo back in the day when he could for serious cash.

Podcasting is crap, anyway.

]]> By: Thomas http://gigaom.com/2007/08/28/cubans-theory-the-internet-infrastructure-questions/#comment-178829 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 23:35:47 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/08/28/cubans-theory-the-internet-infrastructure-questions/#comment-178829 Uh, actually Micah, podcasting doesn’t make that much sense. Any huge podcasting businesses on the scene?
So far, Mark has been “unskilled” twice. First with Broadcast.com and now with HDNet. HD being quite possibly one of the biggest fundamental technology changes in our world in the last 7 years (ex-Internet).

]]> By: TV and the Internet: Both Dead & Boring? http://gigaom.com/2007/08/28/cubans-theory-the-internet-infrastructure-questions/#comment-178828 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 21:53:46 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/08/28/cubans-theory-the-internet-infrastructure-questions/#comment-178828 [...] that the innovation cycle has stopped because the Internet infrastructure can’t keep up. Om Malik agrees. Applications like Facebook, YouTube or Myspace prove, according to Cuban, the stability of the [...]

]]> By: Micah http://gigaom.com/2007/08/28/cubans-theory-the-internet-infrastructure-questions/#comment-178827 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:35:34 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/08/28/cubans-theory-the-internet-infrastructure-questions/#comment-178827 Cuban also believes Podcasting makes no sense. Mark’s a bit of a wanker. He was an unskilled redneck that was at the right place and at the right time when lot’s of money came his way during the dot.com boom. Since then, he’s acquired his share of unearned arrogance.

Someone please collect all of Cuban’s technology predictions and opinions. What you’ll see is a pattern of ignorance.

]]> By: The Navel of the Internet » Blog Archive » Cuban ruffles feathers http://gigaom.com/2007/08/28/cubans-theory-the-internet-infrastructure-questions/#comment-178826 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:33:09 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/08/28/cubans-theory-the-internet-infrastructure-questions/#comment-178826 [...] Cuban is right, of course, and even Om Malik (broadband cheerleader extraordinaire) admits as much: [...]

]]> By: Pushpendra Mohta http://gigaom.com/2007/08/28/cubans-theory-the-internet-infrastructure-questions/#comment-178825 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 17:19:02 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/08/28/cubans-theory-the-internet-infrastructure-questions/#comment-178825 Raw bandwidth is not the only answer to content distribution. Any pipe will ultimately fill up – but an intelligent architecture can provide a 10x improvement for the same bandwidth.

However, if you Follow the Money, the big financial fruits in the Internet business have not been shared in proportion to the costs required to distribute content. There are little incentives to invest in infrastructure, and the big changes require complex cooperation between service providers.

I suspect another trouble is brewing between content owners and content distributors – and Google is wise to start building (gasp!) a vertically integrated GoogleNet.

Rewind 10 years. Roll tape:

http://www.irbs.net/internet/nanog/9701/0594.html
http://www.irbs.net/internet/nanog/9806/0780.html

–pushpendra
ex-CERFnet/AT&T

]]> By: Thomas http://gigaom.com/2007/08/28/cubans-theory-the-internet-infrastructure-questions/#comment-178824 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 04:00:16 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/08/28/cubans-theory-the-internet-infrastructure-questions/#comment-178824 Om, the reason why there is underinvestment in last mile is because of the carriers. As they have consolidated, the number of buyers for any potential breakthrough technology falls. This means that if you’re a start-up targeting the area, if you don’t land AT&T or Verizon, you’re pretty toast. Addtionally, the carriers love to focus on and spend on the core of the network but the access edge is always the afterthought. I think you’ll see some interesting stuff come out of the VDSL2 technologies and that’s why I own a piece of Ikanos (leading VDSL2 chip supplier). Ikanos will look a lot like Sirf did when people figured out that GPS chips are going into most cell phones in my opinion…
And of course there is always WiMAX! (?)

]]> By: Transparent http://gigaom.com/2007/08/28/cubans-theory-the-internet-infrastructure-questions/#comment-178823 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 02:33:34 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/08/28/cubans-theory-the-internet-infrastructure-questions/#comment-178823 The reason there is no new start ups and the internet is boring is the FCC and the Bells. AT&T sues all that try to start something new, hence Free conference calls, They sue iphone users who change their simms, They are against net neutrality. who would invest in this market now when FCC Martin is pro big guy? Google is our last hope to have any saving grace. They will get my phone service when it is up and running.

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