[governance] Uni.X to Uni.X .NETworking - A Below $100 Solution for PE and CE Architecture

[Jim Fleming]

In order to be prepared, as individuals, you may want to consider a
connection arrangement with PE (Provider Edge) and CE (Customer Edge)
devices. The
entire arrangement can be constructed in today's market for about $200.
[$100 ???]
That price-point is key to making it more widely used. In the arrangement,
you also get
Packet TV for free as part of the CE device. Your connection arrangement
would be:

Transport------PE----+----CE (TV)-------PC

To construct the PE---+----CE (TV) Uni.X nodes, in today's market with
EXISTING
devices, it looks like one can now do it for less than $100, but the gear
does not have
a lot of room for code bloat. People have to be very careful about what
features they
really want and do not want.

One of the main PE devices with a dominant market position is the WIFI
module from
Broadcom and marketed (packaged) by various companies. They are about $50.
One of the major companies now has a WIFI CE (TV) device that was selling
for
about $120 but now appears to be down to $30 from off-the-shelf retailers.
That
brings the PE---+---CE (TV) package below $100. The + link is WIFI.

With that arrangement, you can start your own local TV station and the
subscriber has
one LAN connection for the PC to also get Internet (whatever that evolves to
be).

If you check, both the PE and CE modules are capable of running Uni.X
(stripped of
a lot of the code bloat) and they are open source and more importantly, the
development
tools (compilers, etc.) are included in the open source. Off the shelf, the
CE device needs
another device to boot, once Uni.X is up and running. It can be made to boot
from the
PE device rather than the PC, which is what is marketed now.

In the PE---+---CE (TV) arrangement or architecture, the user's PC plugs in
and just
works, there are no down-loads or spyware installs. The ISP can supply the
PE and CE
devices, and they are now off-the-shelf at below $100 for the pair. One PE
can support
many CE devices in a dense living/work space. That lowers the per-user cost
even more.

People headed across the ocean to hand-wave about Internet Governance may
want to
look at the reality of what is happening in deep markets where consumers
decide. With
the right architecture and the right price point for gear, markets may
decide things that the
hand-wavers do not want to see. Fortunately, in some countries the
hand-wavers do not
YET control what hardware is sold and what software is loaded on the
hardware. It is
ironic that the above hardware comes mostly from a country that the
hand-wavers claim
censors the net. The hand-wavers attempt to censor those solutions to
promote their claims
of having more open solutions. What is more open than open (cheap) hardware
and
open source ? and open discussions and education about how to set it up and
make it work ?

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