Lectures notes for 2010 - KTH

Lectures notes for 2010 - KTH Lectures notes for 2010 - KTH

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How does this avoid the “B-ISDN debacle”? Internetworking is completely different from the B-ISDN: • Rather than a single cell based circuit switched network - the focus is on interconnecting networks via a common network layer protocol • Lots of products and lots of vendors selling these products • note: there is significant competition with a very fast development cycle • The technology is “good enough” vs. trying to be an improved version of ISDN (think of examples from Clayton Christianson’s The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail [23]) • It exploits the very rapid advances at the edge of the network - which the users pay for! • Encourages both cooperation by different network operators and competition between different network operators! ⇒ network connectivity as a commodity using commodity products to deliver a wide range of services Maguire How does this avoid the “B-ISDN debacle”? 1: 25 of 104 maguire@kth.se 2010.03.21 Internetworking/Internetteknik

Internetworked Architecture H … MH AP H … R WLAN R switch WAN FDDI R switch Token Ring R switch IWU Ethernet LANs switch R BTS BSC … … MH Cellular networks R IWU MSC HLR/VLR MH Ad hoc PAN MH MH PSTN Figure 2: Internet and PSTN ⇒ Multiple network technologies - internetworked together • Facilitates disaggregation - since functionality can be located anywhere on the internet • Note that some of the routers act as gateways between different types of networks. Maguire Internetworked Architecture 1: 26 of 104 maguire@kth.se 2010.03.21 Internetworking/Internetteknik

How does this avoid the “B-ISDN debacle”?<br />

Internetworking is completely different from the B-ISDN:<br />

• Rather than a single cell based circuit switched network - the focus is<br />

on interconnecting networks via a common network layer protocol<br />

• Lots of products and lots of vendors selling these products<br />

• note: there is significant competition with a very fast development cycle<br />

• The technology is “good enough” vs. trying to be an improved version<br />

of ISDN (think of examples from Clayton Christianson’s The Innovator’s<br />

Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail [23])<br />

• It exploits the very rapid advances at the edge of the network - which<br />

the users pay <strong>for</strong>!<br />

• Encourages both cooperation by different network operators and<br />

competition between different network operators!<br />

⇒ network connectivity as a commodity using commodity products to deliver a<br />

wide range of services<br />

Maguire How does this avoid the “B-ISDN debacle”? 1: 25 of 104<br />

maguire@kth.se <strong>2010</strong>.03.21 Internetworking/Internetteknik

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