Welcome to Fall VON

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2005 Year of Transformation
Jeff PulverFounder
October 20, 2005
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Transformation
VON
Communications
Computing
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You are HERE.
VON
Communications
Computing
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Transformations

• Effects of Moores Law and Metcalfs Law yield
  some great opportunities and challenges
• This in turn starts to blur traditional
  business segments and morph them into something
  new
• Computing / Communications / web 2.0
• Disruptive Broadcasting TV on the Net
• Disruptive Communications eBay/Skype

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Opportunities in Services

• Opportunity to leverage all of the great
  platforms in front of us, connect the dots and
  offer new services.
• Suggestion Start with a clean page of paper and
  re-solve the basic program
• What will emerge is a set of new opportunities
  and some new challenges (think about Skype and
  ITXC)

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IPTV Needs a New Name

• It just does

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TV is just another Application

• TV (like voice) is now just another application
• The Internet is a new TV Channel
• Live8 (AOL Music)
• Video Music Awards (MTV Overdrive)
• BBC moving to release TV shows on the Internet
• Disney offering content on iTunes
• Introduction of Disruptive Broadcasting
  Technologies
• Slingmedia
• Current.tv
• Roadcasting
• Video iPod

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Transformation of Internet Broadcasting

• LiveAid, July 1985 (London and Philadelphia)
• Day-long broadcast on MTV
• One-time-only broadcast
• Live8, July 2005 (multiple cities, worldwide)
• Day-long broadcast on MTV, VH-1
• Webcast on AOL Music (the first true realization
  of the potential of webcasting) and available
  on-demand, indefinitely

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We need Consumer Multicast

• I want my Multicast on consumer broadband
  networks.
• Bring back the MBone. The time is right to
  provision the broadband consumer with access.
• The entire disruptive broadcasting space gets
  accelerated once Multicast becomes available on
  the public Internet.
• BitTorrent is just another channel for video
  distribution but not a replacement for a platform
  to facilitate live video broadcasting on the net.

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IP Communications works great in Emergency
Conditions
IP Communications resilient in the face of...
Hurricane Katrina

• Did the PSTN work? no.
• Did cellular work? no.
• Did VoIP work? YES!

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We need to protect our Internet Freedoms

• We need to be awake as the FCC drafts their
  language for Internet Wiretapping, CALEA
• We need to speak up when the Senate puts to vote
  new E911 demands for the IP Communications
  Industry
• We need to be there to protect the broadband
  communication platforms and keep them open and
  unfettered.

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Internet Freedoms and User Empowerment

• Users should have access to their choice of legal
  content
• Users should be able to run applications of their
  choice
• Users should be permitted to attach any devices
  they choose to the connection in their homes
• Users should know that their personal information
  is safeguarded, except to the extent necessary to
  abide by law enforcement obligations.

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Protecting the Internet

• Support and Join organizations like the Global IP
  Alliance and the VON Coalition
• Global IP Alliance provides a clearinghouse for
  Internet Advocates worldwide.
• Visit www.ipall.org and www.globalipalliance.net

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Questions?

• Feel free to email jeffp_at_pulver.com
• Thank you!