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- catalog contributor b9222296.
- catalog created "1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1996.".
- catalog description "(cont.) 6. Public policy and private action. Introduction -- Public-private engagement -- NII systems issues -- Defining roles for government -- Regulation, rules, and norms -- Protecting the NII : ethics and mechanisms -- Security, reliability, and architecture -- Government as user and service provider -- Technology development through R&D -- Architecture and networking -- Information management and ease of use -- Standards -- International issues -- Syetems data and analysis for NII assessment -- Government as convenor -- Conclusions -- Notes.".
- catalog description "(cont.) Access devices -- The personal computer -- The television -- Advanced television -- The telephone and other access devices -- Toward a fully integrated home system -- What increasing use of general-access devices implies for networking technology deployment -- High data rates to the end point -- Adequate bandwidth in both directions -- Multiple-seesion capapbility -- Real-time, multimedia communication -- Nomadicity -- Security -- Concluding observations -- Notes -- Pt.3. Where is the business case?. Factors shaping investment in information infrastructure -- Investment in facilities -- The problem of how much bandwidth to invest in -- Federal licenses as an influence on deployment of new wireless systems -- Investing to achieve infrastructure generality -- From facilities to services and applications -- Balancing investment--software "capital" -- The separation of services from facilities--braodening the potential content -- The internet and its use for business -- Effets on provision of goods and services -- The internet--layering, incrementalism, and diversification --".
- catalog description "(cont.) Incremental increases -- Arrangements for interconnection -- Economic models -- Usage-based fees for communications and informaation services -- Embedded or domain-specific service -- The broadcast model -- End-user devices paid for by consumers -- The access subscription model -- Payment and the internet phenomenon -- Notes -- Pt.4. Technology options and capabilities : what does what, how. The changing nature of technology and communications -- How trends in technology are changing communications -- Infrastructure and serviceis -- Separation of infrastructure facilities and service offerings -- Building services on each other -- The tension between supporting mature and emerging services -- REsolving the tension : the internet as an example -- The importance of the internet -- The coexistence of new and mature services -- Current technology--evaluating the options -- Hybrid fiber coaxial cable -- Fiber to the curb -- Digital services and the telephone infrastructure -- Data over the telephone system -- Asynchronous transfer mode -- Local area networs -- Wireless -- Broadcastins -- Satellite -- Power industry as infrastucture provider -- The internet -- Change and growth -- Transport infrastructure to information infrastructure -- Open interfaces and open standards --".
- catalog description "(cont.) Standards and innovations in the marketplace -- Management and control of the infrastructure -- Notes -- 5. Technology choices : what are the providers deploying?. Introduction -- Wireline telephony -- Summary and forecasts -- Local access and the larger system -- Integrated services digital network -- Telephone industry fiber deployment -- Demand for telephone services -- Data communications -- Summary and forecasts -- Data services provided by telephone carriers -- Business networking -- Cable television and telephony : advanced services to the home -- Summary and forecasts -- Advanced cable and telephone services to the home -- On-line services and internet access -- Wireless and broadcast infrastructure -- Summary and forecasts -- Wireless telephony -- Wireless data networking -- Terrestrial and satellite broadcast television -- Wireless cable -- Direct broadcast satellite -- Notes --".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-248).".
- catalog description "Pt.1. Introduction and summary. Defining the national information infrastructure -- Driving deployment : business transitions, business models -- The significance of the internet -- As a barometer of potential -- As a laboratory for development of workable standars -- As a basis for critical flexibility -- As a vehicle for new market structures -- Whither the internet? -- Realizing the NII'S potential--the user perspective -- deployment of infrastructure technology -- Access -- Flexibility and interoperability -- Additional technology concerns -- User interaction with networked infrastructure -- Public versus provate objectives -- Organization of this report -- Notes -- Pt.2. Making technology work : individual and organized end users. Who is the end user? -- Why the NII must reach the home -- Evolving demand for NII capabilities -- The end user as consumer --".
- catalog extent "xvi, 281 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Unpredictable certainty.".
- catalog identifier "030905432X".
- catalog isFormatOf "Unpredictable certainty.".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Washington, DC : National Academy Press,".
- catalog relation "Unpredictable certainty.".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "Computer Communication Networks United States.".
- catalog subject "HE7572.U6 U57 1996".
- catalog subject "Information Systems United States.".
- catalog subject "Information networks Government policy United States.".
- catalog subject "Information superhighway Government policy United States.".
- catalog subject "Public Policy United States.".
- catalog subject "Telecommunication policy United States.".
- catalog subject "Telecommunications United States.".
- catalog subject "Z 699 U587 1996".
- catalog tableOfContents "(cont.) 6. Public policy and private action. Introduction -- Public-private engagement -- NII systems issues -- Defining roles for government -- Regulation, rules, and norms -- Protecting the NII : ethics and mechanisms -- Security, reliability, and architecture -- Government as user and service provider -- Technology development through R&D -- Architecture and networking -- Information management and ease of use -- Standards -- International issues -- Syetems data and analysis for NII assessment -- Government as convenor -- Conclusions -- Notes.".
- catalog tableOfContents "(cont.) Access devices -- The personal computer -- The television -- Advanced television -- The telephone and other access devices -- Toward a fully integrated home system -- What increasing use of general-access devices implies for networking technology deployment -- High data rates to the end point -- Adequate bandwidth in both directions -- Multiple-seesion capapbility -- Real-time, multimedia communication -- Nomadicity -- Security -- Concluding observations -- Notes -- Pt.3. Where is the business case?. Factors shaping investment in information infrastructure -- Investment in facilities -- The problem of how much bandwidth to invest in -- Federal licenses as an influence on deployment of new wireless systems -- Investing to achieve infrastructure generality -- From facilities to services and applications -- Balancing investment--software "capital" -- The separation of services from facilities--braodening the potential content -- The internet and its use for business -- Effets on provision of goods and services -- The internet--layering, incrementalism, and diversification --".
- catalog tableOfContents "(cont.) Incremental increases -- Arrangements for interconnection -- Economic models -- Usage-based fees for communications and informaation services -- Embedded or domain-specific service -- The broadcast model -- End-user devices paid for by consumers -- The access subscription model -- Payment and the internet phenomenon -- Notes -- Pt.4. Technology options and capabilities : what does what, how. The changing nature of technology and communications -- How trends in technology are changing communications -- Infrastructure and serviceis -- Separation of infrastructure facilities and service offerings -- Building services on each other -- The tension between supporting mature and emerging services -- REsolving the tension : the internet as an example -- The importance of the internet -- The coexistence of new and mature services -- Current technology--evaluating the options -- Hybrid fiber coaxial cable -- Fiber to the curb -- Digital services and the telephone infrastructure -- Data over the telephone system -- Asynchronous transfer mode -- Local area networs -- Wireless -- Broadcastins -- Satellite -- Power industry as infrastucture provider -- The internet -- Change and growth -- Transport infrastructure to information infrastructure -- Open interfaces and open standards --".
- catalog tableOfContents "(cont.) Standards and innovations in the marketplace -- Management and control of the infrastructure -- Notes -- 5. Technology choices : what are the providers deploying?. Introduction -- Wireline telephony -- Summary and forecasts -- Local access and the larger system -- Integrated services digital network -- Telephone industry fiber deployment -- Demand for telephone services -- Data communications -- Summary and forecasts -- Data services provided by telephone carriers -- Business networking -- Cable television and telephony : advanced services to the home -- Summary and forecasts -- Advanced cable and telephone services to the home -- On-line services and internet access -- Wireless and broadcast infrastructure -- Summary and forecasts -- Wireless telephony -- Wireless data networking -- Terrestrial and satellite broadcast television -- Wireless cable -- Direct broadcast satellite -- Notes --".
- catalog tableOfContents "Pt.1. Introduction and summary. Defining the national information infrastructure -- Driving deployment : business transitions, business models -- The significance of the internet -- As a barometer of potential -- As a laboratory for development of workable standars -- As a basis for critical flexibility -- As a vehicle for new market structures -- Whither the internet? -- Realizing the NII'S potential--the user perspective -- deployment of infrastructure technology -- Access -- Flexibility and interoperability -- Additional technology concerns -- User interaction with networked infrastructure -- Public versus provate objectives -- Organization of this report -- Notes -- Pt.2. Making technology work : individual and organized end users. Who is the end user? -- Why the NII must reach the home -- Evolving demand for NII capabilities -- The end user as consumer --".
- catalog title "The unpredictable certainty : information infrastructure through 2000 / NII 2000 Steering Committee, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications, National Research Council.".
- catalog type "text".