"Austin and Bradley have gathered the best ideas from the brightest thinkers on this topic of global significance. Our economic future depends on understanding the concepts captured in this book."

--Dr. Eric Schmidt, CEO, Google Inc.

"The broadband Internet in the 21st century is positioned to have the same kind of commerce-enabling impact that the railroads had in the 19th century and the Interstate highway system had in the 20th century. Austin and Bradley have collected a brilliant set of articles to help all of us put this phenomenon in perspective."

--Geoffrey Moore, author, Crossing the Chasm and Living on the Fault Line

DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES such as personal computers, e-mail, and the internet have made it possible to run businesses more cheaply and efficiently. But new interactive technologies promise to go much farther-making long-distance business dealings nearly as reliable and effective as face-to-face interaction.

Robert D. Austin and Stephen P. Bradley argue that the driver of this new interactivity-cheap and abundant bandwidthholds the potential for creating an explosion of new capabilities, markets, and strategies that would forever alter the business landscape. The Broadband Explosion marshals the latest thinking from leading experts in the digital world to tackle the questions emerging from this high-stakes arena.

Preface

The Promise of Broadband

1. The Broadband Explosion

Robert D. Austin and Stephen P. Bradley

2. Broadband and Collaboration

Jeremy Allaire and Robert D. Austin

3. Broadband Deployment

From Vision to Reality

Dr. Stagg Newman

4. Valuation Bubbles and Broadband Deployment

Thomas R. Eisenmann

Creating Value in a Broadband World

5. Disruption, Disintegration, and the Impact of New

Telecommunications Technologies 

Clayton M. Christensen and Scott D. Anthony

6. Internet 2 

The Promise of Truly Advanced Broadband

Ted Hanss and Dr. Douglas Van Houweling

7. Broadband and Hyperdifferentiation 

Creating Value by Being Really Different

Eric K. Clemons, Rick Spitler, Bin Gu, and Panos Markopoulos

8. eChoupal 

Revolutionizing Supply Chains in Rural lndia

David M. Upton and Virginia A. Fuller

Capturing the Value of Wireless Broadband

9. i-mode 

Value Chain Strategy in the Wireless Ecosystem

Takeshi Natsuno

10. Wi-Fi 

Complement or Substitute for 3G?

Stephen E Bradley

11. Wireless Local Area Networks 

Why Integration Is Inevitable

H. T. Kung

12. Widespread Adoption of

Wireless Enterprise Solutions 

Ellen Daley, John Keane, and Ali Towle

Policy and the Broadband Future

13. The Inevitability of Broadband 

Reed E. Hundt

14. Protecting Telecommunications Infrastructure

from Malicious Threats 

Jeffrey Hunker

15. Open Spectrum 

The Great Wireless Hope

Kevin Werbach

16. The Balkanization of the Broadband Internet 

Jonathan Zittrain

Index 

About the Authors