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A Taxonomy of Internet Appliances
(2000-09)
The world is evolving from one in which almost all access to the Internet comes from personal
computers (PCs) to one in which so-called Internet appliances (IAs) will make up a greater share
of end-user equipment. Today's ...
Optical Networks and the Future of Broadband Services
(2002-07-22)
The evolution of broadband services will depend on the widespread deployment of optical
networks. The deployment of such networks will, in turn, help drive increased demand for
additional capacity. In this world, service ...
Vertical Integration and Internet Industry Structure: An Application of the Pricing Taxonomy
(1997-11)
This paper utilizes the Internet Pricing Interface Taxonomy to examine
incentives of service providers at various stages in the service provider value chain to
vertically integrate. The focus is on residential, dial-up ...
Show Me the Money: Contracts and Agents in the Service Level Agreement Markets
(2002-07-22)
Delivering real-time services (Internet telephony, video conferencing, and
streaming media as well as business-critical data applications) across the Internet requires
end-to-end quality of service (QoS) guarantees, which ...
The Disruptive User - Internet Appliances and the Management of Complexity
(2001-10)
Bringing networked computing to new users and new contexts entails a disruptive decrease in the level of user patience for
complexity. This paper discusses the tensions involved in making devices as easy to use as traditional ...
A Broadband Access Market Framework: Towards Consumer Service Level Agreements
(2000-09)
Ubiquitous broadband access is considered by many to be necessary for the
Internet to realize its full potential. But there is no generally accepted definition of
what constitutes broadband access. Furthermore, there is ...