Cooperative Networking AKA Everyone Else is Stupid

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Cooperative Networking (AKA Everyone Else is
Stupid)

• Sascha D. Meinrath
• CAIDA Ethos Group
• Correspondence Sascha Meinrath
  sascha_at_saschameinrath.com
• 202 S. Broadway, Ste. 1 Phone 1 (217)
  278-3933 x31
• Urbana, IL 61801 SKYPE saschameinrath
• U.S.A. AIM/Gizmo saschameinrath
• Presented at Freedom to Connect, March 6, 2007.
• All content, unless otherwise noted, is covered
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  Creative Commons license.

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Home Network
Graphic Credit Pat Bergschneider
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Community Network
Graphic Credit Pat Bergschneider
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Projected Growth of US Municipal Wireless Market
(in millions)

• 2004 -- 47.5
• 2005 -- 116.9 (147 YTY Growth Rate)
• 2006 -- 235.5 (102 YTY Growth Rate)
• 2007 -- 459.6 (95 YTY Growth Rate)
• 2008 -- 941.0 (105 YTY Growth Rate)
• 2009 -- 1,757.5 (87 YTY Growth Rate)
• Source MuniWireless.com 2006 Municipal Wireless
  State of the Market Report

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Example US CWNs (April 2006)

• Regional Citywide Networks 58
• Tempe, AZ St. Cloud, FL Chaska, MN
• City Hotzones 32
• Los Angeles, CA Washington, DC Urbana, IL
• Public Safety Municipal Use Only 35
• San Diego, CA Las Vegas, NV New Orleans, LA
• City- County-wide Projects (RFP and/or
  deployment phase) 69
• Phoenix, AZ Mountain View, CA Philadelphia, PA
• Cities Counties Pondering Wireless 11
• Chicago, IL St. Paul, MN New Haven, CT

Muniwireless.com April 2006 Summary of City and
County Municipal Projects
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Community Networks Inside the US
Graphic Credit Free Press
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Background

• Assume 42 slides on why COMMONS, network
  research, collaboration, peering, and cooperation
  will rock your world.

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Proposal

• Cooperative Measurement and Modeling of
  Open-Networked Systems (COMMONS)
• Experiment with different architectures not
  just technical, but economic, ownership, trust.
• Use strengths of collaboration to overcome
  current Internet service provision shortcomings.
• Offer cooperative backbone in exchange for
  mutual, privacy-respecting, community-defined
  transparency across network.

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The Edge of the Broadband World

• Cumberland County, Illinois
• 1532 Residents
• 692 Houses, 393 Families
• North of Hidalgo
• East of Neoga

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Greenup, Illinois
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The US Broadband Backbone

• Military
• Private Corporations
• Educational Institutions
• Not-for-profits
• States
• Cooperatives

Graphic Credit CAIDA
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NLR-Based Peered Network
Graphic Credit Free Press/NLR
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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)

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Economic Imperatives of the Meg I

• 10/month in San Francisco

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Economic Imperatives of the Meg II

• 10/month in San Francisco
• 80-90/month in Chicago

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Economic Imperatives of the Meg III

• 10/month in San Francisco
• 80-90/month in Chicago
• 320/month in Urbana

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Economic Imperatives of the Meg IV

• 10/month in San Francisco
• 80-90/month in Chicago
• 320/month in Urbana
• 1300/month in Greenup

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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 as well as a critical mass of
  expertise from allies.
• Gives science a chance creates a resource for
  network research for the public good.

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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.

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More Information

• Sascha D. Meinrath
• sascha_at_caida.org
• Phone [phone] x31
• AIM, Skype, Gizmo saschameinrath
• CAIDA caida.org
• COMMONS caida.org/projects/commons
• May18-20, 2007
• Wireless Summit wirelesssummit.org
• Presentation online _at_ www.saschameinrath.com