Iowa and BroadbandIowa and Broadband

Vic Jaras

IOWA ADVANTAGESIOWA ADVANTAGES

• More fiber laid than most states.• The ICN provides a fiber connection to almost

every school in the state.• Existing fiber networks can be upgraded at a low

cost compared with new installation.• Lower Capacity Wireless BPL and other Wired

solutions can fill the gaps in connectivity.• Schools and Rural communities will benefit from

increased access to broadband.

Iowa StrengthsIowa Strengths• Iowa's comprehensive high school graduation

rate of 86.4 percent86.4 percent ranks 2nd in the nation in 2006

• Iowa ranks first for highest scores on the SAT college entrance exam in 2007

• Iowa ranks second in the nation in "Cost-of-Doing-Business," a study that measures a state's tax burden, electricity costs, industrial rent costs, office rent costs and wage costs. (Milken Institute)

• Iowa is the birthplace of the computer first developed at Iowa State University

Source: http://www.governor.iowa.gov/news/2007/12/11_1.php

Broadband Revolution

U.S. Broadband Decline 04.24.07 by Chloe Albanesius

• A U.S. innovation brain drain, coupled with sloppy government handling of subsidy programs and data collection, have contributed to a decline in the country's broadband standing, technology experts told the Senate Commerce Committee on Tuesday.

• The committee convened the hearing for a discussion on how the U.S. measures up against other countries in broadband competitiveness.

• The hearing was held a day after the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) issued new global broadband per-capita penetration data that saw the U.S. fall from 12th to 15th place out of 30 countries. Some viewed the results as a sign that the U.S. is falling behind its global counterparts, while others said it was unfair to compare the U.S. against the smaller and more densely populated countries that beat the U.S. in the OECD rankings. source: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2121582,00.asp

US is last place in Fiber

Why Why we needwe need Broadband Broadband:

Suppose you were to download the entire Library of Congress onto your computer.

• Using a dial-up modem transferring data at a rate of 56 K bits per second would take about 82 years82 years..

• A wireless connection going at 200 kbps would move the library in a little over 2 years2 years.

• A DSLDSL connection at 380 kbs would take 1 year.• Typical US Cable Modem at 800kbs – 6 months6 months• A T-1 Connection at 1mbs would take 40 hours40 hours.• A US Fiber Connection running at 10mbs - 4 4

hours.hours.• Asian Fiber running at 100mbs -24 minutes24 minutes

Are we ready for this?Are we ready for this?

• By 2010, the average US household will be using 1.1 TB of bandwidth a month, according to Internet Innovation Alliance. At that level, 20 homes would generate At that level, 20 homes would generate more traffic than the entire Internet did more traffic than the entire Internet did in 1995.in 1995.

Source: http://www.itfacts.biz/us-household-to-generate-11-tb-of-internet-traffic-a-month-by-2010/10446

WE WILL NEED NEW WAYS TO PROVIDE BROADBAND ACCESS..

BPL -Broadband over Power Lines

Japan's Warp-Speed Ride to Internet FutureJapan's Warp-Speed Ride to Internet Future

By Blaine HardenWashington Post Foreign ServiceWednesday, August 29, 2007; A01

• TOKYO -- Americans invented the Internet, but the Japanese are running away with it.

• Broadband service here is eight to 30 times as fast as in the United States -- and considerably cheaper.

• Japan has the world's fastest Internet connections, delivering more data at a lower cost than anywhere else, recent studies show.

• Accelerating broadband speed in this country -- as well as in South Korea and much of Europe -- is pushing open doors to Internet innovation that are likely to remain closed for years to come in much of the United States.

source:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/28/AR2007082801990_pf.html

The Internet in JapanThe Internet in Japan

• The speed advantage allows the Japanese to watch broadcast-quality, full-screen television over the Internet, an experience that mocks the grainy, wallet-size images Americans endure.

• Ultra-high-speed applications are being rolled out for low-cost, high-definition teleconferencing, for telemedicine -- which allows urban doctors to diagnose diseases from a distance -- and for advanced telecommuting to help Japan meet its goal of doubling the number of people who work from home by 2010.

Source: http://www.websiteoptimization.com/bw/0711/

World Chart

Note: China is not included in this chart

China: The rise of the DragonChina: The rise of the Dragon

• 2006: The current user base of home Internet Internet users is about 155,000,000users is about 155,000,000 in China but,

• the cell phone customer base is just over 430,000,000 throughout mainland China. 

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_the_People's_Republic_of_China

2008: China has 253 Million Internet users

China had 220 million broadband users by the end of 2007.[2] A majority of broadband subscribers are DSL, mostly from China Telecom and China Netcom. The price varies at different provinces, usually around US$10 - $20/month for a 1M DSL with unlimited downloads.

DSL in Japan

• The copper wire used to hook up Japanese homes is newer and runs in shorter loops to telephone exchanges than in the United States. This is partly a matter of geography and demographics: Japan is relatively small, highly urbanized and densely populated. But better wire is also a legacy of American bombs, which razed much of urban Japan during World War II and led to a wholesale rewiring of the country.

• In short order, broadband exploded. At first, it used the same DSL technology that exists in the United States. But because of the better, shorter wire in Japan, DSL service here is much faster. Ten to 20 times as fast, according to Pepper, one of the world's leading experts on broadband infrastructure.

Japan has 100mb Internet• Perhaps more important, competition in Japan gave a

kick in the pants to Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (NTT), once a government-controlled enterprise and still Japan's largest phone company. With the help of government subsidies and tax breaks, NTT launched a nationwide build-out of fiber-optic lines to homes, making the lower-capacity copper wires obsolete.

• His company now offers speeds on fiber of up to 100 megabits per second -- 17 times as fast as the top speed generally available from U.S. cable. About 8.8 million Japanese homes have fiber lines -- roughly nine times the number in the United States.

• The burgeoning optical fiber system is hurtling Japan into an Internet future that experts say Americans are unlikely to experience for at least several years.

Medical Applications

• Shoji Matsuya, director of diagnostic pathology at Kanto Medical Center in Tokyo, has tested an NTT telepathology system scheduled for nationwide use next spring.

• It allows pathologists -- using high-definition video and remote-controlled microscopes -- to examine tissue samples from patients living in areas without access to major hospitals. Those patients need only find a clinic with the right microscope and an NTT fiber connection

Will we lose our Innovation lead?

• Japan's lead in speed is worrisome because it will shift Internet innovation away from the United States, warns Cerf, who is widely credited with helping to invent some of the Internet's basic architecture. "Once you have very high speeds, I guarantee that people will figure out things to do with it that they haven't done before," he said.

• As a champion of Japanese-style competition through regulation, Cerf supports "net neutrality" legislation now pending in Congress. It would mandate that phone and cable companies treat all online traffic equally, without imposing higher tolls for certain content.

How Japan did it..

• U.S. phone and cable companies, which control about 98 percent of the country's broadband market, strongly oppose the proposed laws, saying they would discourage the huge investments needed to upgrade broadband speed.

• Yet the story of how Japan outclassed the United States in the provision of better, cheaper Internet service suggests that forceful government regulation can pay substantial dividends.

• The cycle began shortly after Japanese politicians -- fretting about an Internet system that in 2000 was slower and more expensive than what existed in the United States -- decided to "unbundle" copper lines.

• For just $2 a month, upstart broadband companies were allowed to rent bandwidth on an NTT copper wire connected to a Japanese home. Low rent allowed them to charge low prices to consumers -- as little as $22 a month for a DSL connection faster than almost all U.S. broadband services.

Japan and Fiber to the Home

• "The Bush administration largely turned its back on the Internet, so we have just drifted downwards," said Thomas Bleha, a former U.S. diplomat who served in Japan and is writing a history of how that country trumped the United States in broadband.

• The growing addiction to speed, ironically, is returning near-monopoly power in fiber to NTT, which owns and controls most new fiber lines to homes. Growth of new fiber connections exceeded DSL growth two years ago. Fiber is how all of Japan will soon be connected -- for phones, television and nearly all other services.

Compare:

• How do YOU connect to the Internet?

• Is there a reason for us to improve?

JAPAN

100mb FIBER

To the home

$22 month

IOWA1-2 mb

Fiber to the homecableDial up

US DSL

Note: this graph goes higher than what is shown here

Rural

Urban & Suburban

Rural, Urban and Suburban

28-56k 128-256 kbps

1,000kb or kilobits = 1mb or megabit

Iowa is a national leader

Source: http://www.state.ia.us/iub/docs/reports/InternetAccess_2008.pdf

Spain: Internet over PowerSpain: Internet over Power

How do you Connect?

• In the 1890’s school teacher Laura Ingalls Wilder used the latest Educational Technology. She drew diagrams on a blackboard and she used a telephone to communicate over distance.

• This phone used a copper wire which is STILL used today for dial-up and DSL connections to the Internet.

National Study of Real-Time Internet Connection Speeds Shows U.S. Falling Further Behind Other Advanced

Nations

• EDITOR'S NOTE: A full list of state rankings is available at www.speedmatters.org/pages/state.html.

• (Washington, DC.)—The results of a nationwide study of Internet connection speeds in the United States reveal little progress over the previous year in the country's median data download speed. At the present rate—with a gain of only four-tenths of one megabit per secondsecond—it will take the U.S. more than one —it will take the U.S. more than one hundred years to catch up with current Internet hundred years to catch up with current Internet speeds in Japan. speeds in Japan.

http://www.cwa-union.org/news/national-study-of-real-time-internet-connection-speeds-shows-u-s-falling-further-behind-other-advanced-nations.html

Speed MattersSpeed Matters• The Speed Test, which measures the last-mile speed of a

user's Internet connection, shows that the median real-time download speed in the U.S. is a mere 2.3 megabits per second (mbps). The best available estimates show average download speeds in average download speeds in Japan of 63 Japan of 63 mbps, in South Korea of 49 mbps and in France of 17mbps, in South Korea of 49 mbps and in France of 17 mbpsmbps.[1] That means the same multimedia file that takes four minutes to download in South Korea would take nearly an hour and a half to download in the U.S.

• "This isn't about how fast someone can download a full-length movie. Speed matters to our economy and our ability to remain competitive in a global marketplace," said Larry Cohen, president, Communications Workers of America. "Rural development, telemedicine and distance learning all rely on truly high-speed, universal networks."

CEOs: Time to address 'education gap' Shortage of STEM graduates hurts U.S.

competitiveness, executives say From eSchool News staff and wire service reports

• The next president of the United States should be very concerned about the country's ability to attract and retain sscience, ttechnology, eengineering, and mmathematics (STEM) workers if the U.S. is to remain a leader in a global, information-based economy, say chief executives of America's leading companies.Source: http://www.eschoolnews.com/emails/esntoday/esntoday092508.htm

STEM SHORTAGE

• Nearly all of the executives surveyed (95 percent) said they're concerned the U.S. is in danger of losing its position as a global leader in science and technology owing to a shortage of STEM talent, with more than half (55 percent) reporting their companies are already experiencing such a shortage.

• When it comes to rising international competition, two-thirds (68 percent) are concerned that other countries' increasing access to STEM talent is giving rival companies based in these countries a competitive advantage over them, with one-fifth (20 percent) saying they are "very concerned.“

Larry Page (Google) on Broadband