25-07-2012, 12:29 PM
End-To-End Residential Broadband Architecture And Products Opportunities
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What Is Residential Broadband?
Fast networks to and through the home
Requirements for residential broadband are different from business needs:
Demands far greater ease of use
Scale is potentially huge compared to business networking
Driven by lifestyle/entertainment/information services
Market drivers:
Fast Web access - #1 consumer request
Ecommerce - shopping and transactions
Fat pipes to the home drive in-home networking
Microsoft Residential Broadband Strategy
Objective: enable and accelerate deployment of residential broadband services and applications
Network Agnostic, focus on all emerging media: cable, DSL, wireless, etc.
Promote standards and interoperability
Work with existing standards bodies:
ITU-T, IETF, ADSL Forum, ATM Forum, CableLabs/MCNS
Accelerate standards development:
E.g., PPP over ATM, G.Lite
Drive ad hoc industry efforts as needed: e.g., UAWG
Working with the industry to drive deployment (network operators and vendors)
E.g., ease of use, Auto-Service provisioning
Windows Support For Broadband Networking
Implement necessary standards-based networking protocols support into Windows
Native ATM support (Windows 98 and Windows 2000)
PPP over ATM support (Windows 98 and Windows 2000)
Windows 98 Second Edition
Full QoS support in Windows 2000 including RSVP, diffserv, QoS policy, and traffic control
Windows 98 - RSVP native
Internet Sharing (Windows 98 and Windows 2000)
Windows 98 Second Edition
PPTP support (Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT® 4.0, Windows 2000)
Remote NDIS (Windows 98 and Windows 2000: beta H2 ’99; Windows CE: beta CY 2000)
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What Is Residential Broadband?
Fast networks to and through the home
Requirements for residential broadband are different from business needs:
Demands far greater ease of use
Scale is potentially huge compared to business networking
Driven by lifestyle/entertainment/information services
Market drivers:
Fast Web access - #1 consumer request
Ecommerce - shopping and transactions
Fat pipes to the home drive in-home networking
Microsoft Residential Broadband Strategy
Objective: enable and accelerate deployment of residential broadband services and applications
Network Agnostic, focus on all emerging media: cable, DSL, wireless, etc.
Promote standards and interoperability
Work with existing standards bodies:
ITU-T, IETF, ADSL Forum, ATM Forum, CableLabs/MCNS
Accelerate standards development:
E.g., PPP over ATM, G.Lite
Drive ad hoc industry efforts as needed: e.g., UAWG
Working with the industry to drive deployment (network operators and vendors)
E.g., ease of use, Auto-Service provisioning
Windows Support For Broadband Networking
Implement necessary standards-based networking protocols support into Windows
Native ATM support (Windows 98 and Windows 2000)
PPP over ATM support (Windows 98 and Windows 2000)
Windows 98 Second Edition
Full QoS support in Windows 2000 including RSVP, diffserv, QoS policy, and traffic control
Windows 98 - RSVP native
Internet Sharing (Windows 98 and Windows 2000)
Windows 98 Second Edition
PPTP support (Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT® 4.0, Windows 2000)
Remote NDIS (Windows 98 and Windows 2000: beta H2 ’99; Windows CE: beta CY 2000)