Communications Value Chain: perspectives on the future

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Communications Value Chain perspectives on the
future
Dr. William Lehr (wlehr_at_mit.edu) Communications
Futures Program Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
prepared for Telecom New Zealand April 2008
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Communications Value Chain Outline

• MIT Communications Futures Program
  (http//cfp.mit.edu)
• Trends
• Vision
• Implications
• Public Policy

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Our Vision at the Communications Futures Program
(CFP) is to define the roadmap for communications
and its impact on adjacent industries. CFP is a
new cross cutting partnership between University
and Industry. Industry partners include companies
across the entire communications value chain
including end users.
Multidisciplinary technology, bus
strategy/economics policy
Cross Value Chain chips ??boxes??services,

RD??strategy?? operations,
industry??academia
Open Communications focus on destabilizing
shifts of intelligence and control between
network owners and end users
http//cfp.mit.edu
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Industry Partners -- BT, Cisco, Comcast,
France Telecom, Futurewei, Motorola,
Nokia-Siemens, Telecom Italia, Telefonica, Telmex
Working Groups -- Viral NexGen Wireless ?
distributed, end-user deployed, ad hoc (Media
Lab) -- Value Chain Dynamics industry value
chain shifts (Sloan) -- Broadband and
Interconnection last-mile provider
infrastructure (CSAIL) -- Internet
Architecture QoS, Priv-Sec, and NexGen Internet
Arch (CSAIL) -- Spectrum dynamic RF access
mgmt regimes and policy (CSAIL) -- Optical
Broadband photonics and NexGen fiberoptic
systems (CIPS)