Will CORD Change the Economics of Broadband?
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Linux.com reports on CORD and how it may affect the future of broadband.
CORD is the biggest innovation in the access market since ADSL and the cable modem. Considering the broad scope of the access network, and the technical roadmap the growing open source CORD community laid out at the Summit, CORD has the potential to redefine the economics of access.
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This is certainly something that needs done, but I do not see anything happening. All the regulatory overhead is killer in this space.
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I don't get how CORD can help. If the regulations say thou shalt have 5 9s of availability, The demand is going to remain crazy high on service providers and the cost of scaling it to rural areas is going to remain out of reach.
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The focus of CORD as explained in the article is to find a solution using virtualization at a cloud level for the last mile.
Uptime is a key component of cloud providers.
The trouble is how can we use cloud services in the last mile, while still supporting such a huge and diverse hardware base, with the 5 9'same of uptime to boot.
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@Breffni-Potter said in Will CORD Change the Economics of Broadband?:
I don't get how CORD can help. If the regulations say thou shalt have 5 9s of availability, The demand is going to remain crazy high on service providers and the cost of scaling it to rural areas is going to remain out of reach.
Five nines isn't really that bad at all. And how is that measured, pretty sure it is an average across all customers. It's a big thing, but they've been doing it with ancient tech since the 1960s. I think doing it now really should not be the big challenge that it sounds like. It's just aging equipment, facilities and planning that holds them back.
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@DustinB3403 said in Will CORD Change the Economics of Broadband?:
The focus of CORD as explained in the article is to find a solution using virtualization at a cloud level for the last mile.
I got nothing like that at all out of that article.
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@JaredBusch said in Will CORD Change the Economics of Broadband?:
@DustinB3403 said in Will CORD Change the Economics of Broadband?:
The focus of CORD as explained in the article is to find a solution using virtualization at a cloud level for the last mile.
I got nothing like that at all out of that article.
That's what it read like to me. They service providers need to upgrade the 'last mile' and are looking to do it with cloud type virtualization. This way they can still maintain a very wide range of supported equipment while maintaining up time.
