Seattle’s Road to a Gig FCC Gigabit Workshop March 27, 2012 Washington DC
Mar 29, 2015
Seattle’s Road to a Gig
FCC Gigabit WorkshopMarch 27, 2012Washington DC
Gigabit in SeattlePlanned Gigabit Squared Service Areas
Seattle 2005Broadband for All:• Within a decade all of Seattle
will have affordable access to an interactive, open, broadband network capable of supporting applications and services using integrated layers of voice, video and data, with sufficient capacity to meet the ongoing information, communications and entertainment needs of the city’s citizens, businesses, institutions and municipal government.
• ONLY FTTP COMPLEMENTED BY WIRELESS OVERLAY CAN REALIZE THIS VISION
Technological Revolution
Popular Name for the Period
Big-Bang Initiating the Revolution
New or Redefined Infrastructure(s)
Year
FIRST Industrial Revolution Arkwright’s mill in Cromford, England
Canals and waterways; turnpike roads
1771
SECOND Age of Steam and Railways Test of “Rocket” steam engine for Liverpool- Manchester railway
RailwaysTelegraph (along railways)City gas
1829
THIRD Age of Steel, Electricity and Heavy Engineering
Carnegie Bessemer Steel Plant in Pittsburgh
Worldwide Shipping in Steel ShipsWorldwide railwaysGreat Bridges and Tunnels
1875
FOURTH Age of Oil, Automobile and Mass Production
Model-T in Detroit Network of Roads, Highways, Ports,Network of Oil Ducts AirportsUniversal ElectricityAnalog telecommunications
1908
FIFTH Age of Information and Telecommunications
1st Intel Processor Santa Clara
World Digital telecommunications (cable, fiber, radio, satellite)Internet/Electronic mail, e-servicesHigh Speed physical Transport
1971
Based on Carlota Perez, “Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital”. Page 11
Source: Google
Fundamental Question:Who Decides What Drivers Will Shape the Future Contours of
Broadband in Seattle