<div dir="ltr"><div>Currently part of a group that's helping with the post-Helene recovery in North Carolina and post-Milton recovery in Florida. There have been three technologies that have overwhelmingly helped with the recovery: <br></div><div><br></div><div>1. helicopters or other airborne assets that can assess damage from above (there's tech that can scan for signs of people needing help, one such instance identified a potential face of a person in mud from >20,000 feet away... it was a garden gnome)<br></div><div>2. portable generators using various fuel sources (essential when the grid is down)<br></div><div>3. Starlink</div><div><br></div><div>... especially for North Carolina where the electrical grid was seriously impacted - without Starlink there would not have been the chance of getting assessments of needs and triaging of recovery efforts. Expect this to be something referenced in 2025 when the post-Hurricane aftermath is sorted out regarding broadband futures. Even volunteer teams from other tech companies to help with the recovery have turned to Starlink for comms. <br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Oct 11, 2024 at 4:30 PM Robert McMahon via Nnagain <<a href="mailto:nnagain@lists.bufferbloat.net" target="_blank">nnagain@lists.bufferbloat.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Matching the OSP to the end users is the tricky part. Cadence matching is critical. It's analogous to pelotons in cycling. An ASIC is a 24-36 month cycle. </div><div><br></div><div>The market dynamic that works the best is consumer purchases where no financial analysis is done rather people buy tech for a purpose or for use case(s). <br><br></div>The next missing piece is Fi-Wi. That will make home networks phenomenal and as simple as a whole home fire alarm system. When this occurs, consumers will push back on service providers to upgrade their OSP faster because they are not being limited by the mobile phone as the primary user device. Life support use cases, redundancy and quarantining of bad acting devices will be standard practice (as are circuit breakers, AFCI an GCF in our electric panels)<br></div><div><br></div>Universal service is a must here too, even within a building. Life support is not only for the wealthy. (And those going to Mars won't get such either - no escaping reality)<br><br>I get the broadband focus (and that Elon Muisk is a disaster in the making,) but "Wi-Fi only inside" is not sufficient at all and there really is nothing stopping us from addressing this that I can see. Fix the homes with fronthaul and wireless to the last meters using the only two mediums that matter, fiber and RF over spacetime. Most everything else will follow.<br><br></div>Bob<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Oct 10, 2024 at 6:20 PM Vint Cerf via Nnagain <<a href="mailto:nnagain@lists.bufferbloat.net" target="_blank">nnagain@lists.bufferbloat.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">good analysis<div><br></div><div>v</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Oct 10, 2024 at 11:19 PM Dave Taht via Nnagain <<a href="mailto:nnagain@lists.bufferbloat.net" target="_blank">nnagain@lists.bufferbloat.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><a href="https://www.benton.org/blog/impact-election-broadband-sector" target="_blank">https://www.benton.org/blog/impact-election-broadband-sector</a><div><br clear="all"><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Dave Täht CSO, LibreQos<br></div></div></div></div></div>
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