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| Divestiture left the RBOCs without the ability to provide |
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| Long distance service/ Could not move traffic across “LATA” boundaries. |
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| Signaling System 7 problem |
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| out of band signaling, required the installation of packet switches which set up and tore down calls, great technology but stopped by LATA |
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| tech advances--better switches, cheaper backhauling, Support operations easliy regionalized, but LATA's stopped these from happening |
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| Ameritech plan to open local exchange market to competition dropping LATA restrictions |
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| Pro-Competition, Remove boundries btw industries, universal service |
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| Local markts open, no danger of unfair competition in long distance |
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| Telecomm Act 1996 obligations |
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| All carrires must interconnect, no unreasonable or unfair restrictions on the resale of services, LEC and CLEC obligated to pay one another for their services |
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| Number portability, Dialing Parity, Access to right-of-way, Reciprocal compensation |
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| Negotiate in good faith (state supervision), interconnection rates be just and reasonable(Due Process), Unbundled Access to network components, resale, provide notice of change in network, provide collocation of entrent equipment |
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| Physical- Entrant equipment placed on incumbent LEC premisis, Virtual-enterant Facility and Incumbent Facility join at meet point |
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| FCC took Pro-Competition stance, had 6 months to write rules |
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| FCC made list of necessary network elements, States apply rules, (variations in states rules made it hard on incumbents) |
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| Local competition rules jurisdiction |
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| states est. rates, FCC gave proxy prices to help states |
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| price based on economic cost |
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| Total Element Long Run Incremental Cost |
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| excludes embedded cost, forward looking, utilize new tech |
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| All contracts be avalible, entrants can pick and choose terms |
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| recombine at direction of entrent(UNE Platform), created arbitrage potential |
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| FCC provisions binding on state |
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| FCC pricing order reversed by 8th circuit |
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| no more Proxy pricing, recombining UNEs, or pick and choose |
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| Supreme court pricing decision |
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| reinstated FCC rules, extended FCC jusridiction into state pricing matters, but new network element list |
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| TRO (Triennial Review Order) provisions |
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| fiber loops unbundled, DS1 unbundled, line sharing on copper eliminated, unbundled switching |
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| Telecomm act 1996 rboc long distance |
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| could begin long distance when competitive checklist is met |
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| TRO appealed. Switching as UNE eliminated |
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| Advanced Research and Projects Agency- Dept. of Def, |
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| Network Layer, Packet Switching, TCP/IP |
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| Internet early architecture |
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| Key to U.S. success in pricvatization |
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| excess BW in long distance, Telephone comp. kept out of competeing w/ ISPs, Flat rate local teleph. Calling |
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| Autonomous system= routers and IP add. Under common control |
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| Beginning Internet Interconnection |
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| four NAPs(Network Access Points), nondiscriminatory interconnection |
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| Backbone Providers (tier 1 ISP) |
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| Maintain IP-address routing tables that include all IP addresses, so that they are able to route traffic anywhere on the Internet. |
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Maintain smaller networks and IP-address routing tables that
contain their own customers. |
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| Content delivery networks (CDN) |
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| Enable content providers to cache their content at various points close to end users |
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| Paid arangment giving Tier 2 and CDN ability to reach entire internet |
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