First Mile Access Networks and Enabling Technologies

Chapter 9. First Mile Access Management and Business Model

First mile networks have the potential to directly and positively affect our daily lives. To realize this potential, however, we must justify these networks in terms of cost, confirm their technological viability, and integrate the technologies into the preexisting voice- and data-transfer world. In short, we want a business justification for such networks. This chapter introduces a new type of business model: the intelligent city. In such, a community, or otherwise socially connected group of individuals, builds a network and creates management tools to provide services efficiently. This chapter does not analyze the business case for these emergent networks. Instead, it covers these ...