Cooperative Measurement and Modeling of Open Networked Systems (COMMONS) Sascha D. Meinrath New America Foundation Correspondence: Sascha Meinrath [email protected]1630 Connecticut Ave., NW Phone: +1 (202) 986-2700 7 th Floor SKYPE: saschameinrath Washington, DC 20009 AIM/Gizmo: saschameinrath USA Presented at the Rural Telecom Congress in Springfield, Illinois, October 15, 2007. All content, unless otherwise noted, is covered by an attribution, non-commercial,
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Cooperative Measurement and Modeling of Open Networked Systems
* Muniwireless.com April 2006 Summary of City and County Municipal Projects
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Wireless Ghana
Provides Public Services to Hospitals, Municipal Buildings, Rural Bank, NGOs, etc.
Private Backhaul
Image Courtesy of Wireless Ghana
Mamelodi, South Africa
Graphic Credit: CSIR
Djursland, Denmark
Graphic Credit: Djursland Network
Athens, Greece
Graphic Credit: Athens Wireless Network
Katrina Disaster Response
Graphic Credit: Radio Response
Community Networks Inside the US
Graphic Credit: Free Press
ProposalCooperative Measurement and Modeling of
Open-Networked Systems (COMMONS): Experimentation with different architectures & business models. Use strengths of cooperation to overcome current Internet service provision shortcomings. Collaboration offers backbone transit in exchange for privacy-respecting, participant-defined data-collection for use by network researchers and scientists.
Economic Imperatives
1Mbps symmetric costs:$10/month in San Francisco$80-90/month in Chicago$320/month in Urbana$1300/month in Greenup
Peering ratio costs.
The “Edge of the Broadband World”Cumberland
County, Illinois1532 Residents692 Houses, 393
FamiliesNorth of HidalgoEast of Neoga
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The US Broadband “Backbone”
Military Private
Corporations Educational
Institutions Not-for-profits States Cooperatives
Graphic Credit: CAIDA
NLR-Based Peered Network
Graphic Credit: Free Press/NLR
The Illinois Century Network
4,911 K-12 Schools 322 Colleges &
Universities 492 Libraries &
Museums 67 Healthcare Facilities 2,092 Municipal
Governments 131 “Others”
8,015 Clients (Jan '07)Graphic Credit: Illinois Century Network
Potential Partners Internet2 QUILT NLR RONs Educause, NATOA, & Other Coalitions State Networks Municipalities and Community Wireless Implementors (cities, WISPs, NGOs, etc.) CRACIN & Other Innovative Organizations
Some Lessons Learned That SupportSocial and Economic Justice
• Share bandwidth – buy bulk wholesale.
• Distribute information storage.
• Integrate community intranet services.
• Foster mobile uploading & universal access.
• Support anonymous usage and downloading.
• Create immediate community-wide broadcasting & media production opportunities.
• Open Source, Open Architecture, Open Spectrum Solutions.
Immediate Problems Solved:
Alleviates commercial sector of so-called “impossibly low margin customers”. Secures First Amendment rights of free speech and expression. Provides emerging community networks with a level playing field. Gives science a chance – creates a resource for network research for the public good.
Long-Term Solutions Creates opportunities for sound measurement and analysis – the key to telecommunications policy that serves the public good. Helps achieve the goal of universal, affordable service – which the “free market” has failed to deliver. Accountability and local control -- facilitates a solution that pushes control over the network as far to the edge as possible. Fosters new generation of innovation in services, applications, hardware, & software.
More InformationSascha D. Meinrath [email protected]: +1 (202) 986-2700AIM, Skype, Gizmo: saschameinrath