[opendtv] Re: Smartphones encourage mobile user churn
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 18:04:44 -0500
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
> The Internet is a PIPE Bert. A pipe that lets you access servers with
> a multitude of content. The standards for the data are "OPEN" but the
> content is no different that that delivers via any other pipe. There
> are MANY walled gardens accessible via the Internet...
Somehow, your power of logic is at an all-time low, Craig.
An ISP can connect to the Internet cloud, and yet deliver that content to its
subscribers in any number of different ways. Before IP became the default
standard of the world, there were boxes called Softswitch gateways that allowed
IP networks and other networks, such as DECnet, IPX, or SNA, to
intercommunicate. These were layer 7 devices.
In spite of the practical shortocmings of the Softswitch gateways of those
days, there is no reason at all why an ISP couldn't operate that way today.
Just as MVPDs operate, when they connect their subscribers. In such a scheme,
the ISP could require its own CPU to be used on your premises, and perhaps give
you the option of selecting a keyboard and monitor of your choice.
Oh yeah, just like they do with your TV. You have the option of choosing the TV
monitor and the remote control of your choice (remote for the monitor, that
is). All of the applications running on the standard Internet would be
translated by this new version layer 7 gateway, to work on the ISPs proprietary
network.
And there are less draconian mechanisms that could be used for this, with the
same effect. An ISP could use IPsec to encrypt everything on its network, then
charge the subscribers every month for the new keys they would need. Even
without mandating that only their CPU be used.
The point I was making is, so far at least, they haven't done this. You seem to
think that throwing out the word "pipe" explains why.
Bert
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