How the Corean Broadband Internet has developed.

1. Internet Corea
Dae Young KIM, CNU
Thomas Byeong-Nam YOON, KKU
HyunJe PARK, MKE

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Short History of
Corean ICT

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'80's
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TDX
– Before: Siemens M10, Bell Telephone (Belgium)
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DRAM
– Samsung, LG, Hyundai, ...
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ISDN

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'90's
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BISDN/ATM
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Mobile/CDMA
– Qualcomm
– ETRI, KT, MIC, Samsung/LG/Hyundai/Daewoo
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Broadband Internet
– DSL: Thrunet/Hanaro/KT/DearmLine
– Cable: Thrunet/Hanaro/Onse/Dacom/SKT/DrmLn

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2000's
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WiBro(Mobile WiMAX)
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LTE
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NGN
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Smart phones
– Samsung, LG
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Gigabit Ethernet
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PON

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Now and Beyond
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Internet speed to the home
– Now: 100Mbps
– Beyond 2015: 1 Gbps
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Future Internet
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SMART: work, home, grid, ...

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Optical Internet

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Milestone
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6/1 Mbps
– ADSL
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20Mbps up
– FTTC/PON
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1Gbps up
– FTTH/PON

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Japan vs Corea
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Corea
– ISDN > DSL > FFTC > FTTH
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Japan
– ISDN >(DSL)> FTTC >FTTH
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Result
– JP: Stronger in fiber infrastructure
– KR: Catching up

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Fiber Owners
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Energy
– KEPCO, power plants, ...
– PowerCom
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Transportation
– Trains, Subways, Highways, …
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Municipals, Water(KOWACO), …

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Why the Corean
Broadband Internet?

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Fair Competition
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Deregulation since late 90's
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Fair to Insane competition
– Thrunet/Hanaro: the champion
– KT: lazy/slow dinosaur
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Multiple competitors at each household (now)
– KT, SKT, LG, PowerCom, Cables, independents
– At least three and up

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Geographical
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Small land
– 70% mountains
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Very densely populated
– Mostly in big cities
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Housings
– Apartments: dominant

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PPP
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Ministries: PTT > MIC > KCC/MKE
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ETRI: research institute
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ISPs: KT, SKT, …
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Industries: Samsung, LG, …
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Users/People
– Most are greedy, short-tempered, early adopters
– Spoiled children
– Quicker, Faster, Luxurious, … all non-decency...?

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Thanks
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Thomas ByeongNam Yoon<tomayoon@hotmail.com>
– ETRI, NIA, Chile/Turkey, KKU
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HyunJe Park<hjpark90@gmail.com>
– KAIST, Thrunet, MKE
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DaeYoung Kim<dykim@cnu.kr>
– CNU
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All through the last 30 years of KR ICT