Monday, March 27, 2006
Tom Evslin retells the Stupid Network story
Tom Evslin, who, unbeknownst to me at the time, was my best friend in AT&T's Carpetland, blogged me flatteringly yesterday. He wrote:
Tom Evslin will be at F2C: Freedom to Connect. About that, he writes:
Over one weekend in May of 1997 David Isenberg, who then worked at AT&T Labs Research (nee Bell labs), wrote a paper called The Rise of The Stupid Network which explained (and still explains) with breathtaking simplicity why the Internet is superior to the “intelligent networks” favored by traditional telcos and was about to crater the value of these expensive networks. The paper is especially relevant now . . . It is just about as current as the weekend it was written.Then he writes:
OK, you ask, why is a stupid network better than an intelligent one?Then he explains why.
Tom Evslin will be at F2C: Freedom to Connect. About that, he writes:
I won’t agree with everyone there; neither will you: but this is the place where the right communication issues get discussed by people who mostly know what they’re talking about.
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