The document discusses the information superhighway (I-Way). It describes I-Way as a high-capacity, interactive electronic pipeline providing integrated services. The document outlines the key components of I-Way, including network access equipment, the last mile, and global information distribution networks. It also examines the public policy issues that shape I-Way, such as cost, subsidies, regulation, and universal access.

1. Information Superhighway

2.  Kishor Mahara
 Khem Raj Rawal
 Suman Pokhrel
 Aditya Bhattarai
 Jayaram Bhattarai

3.  Introduction
 Market forces influencing I-way
 Components of I-way
1.Network access equipment
2.The last mile
3.Global information distribution networks
 Public policy issues shaping the i-way

4.  Clarify what I-Way is
 Describe market forces influencing I-Way
 Illustrate the components of I-Way
 Explain public policy issues shaping I-Way

5.  History
• 1994, Al Gore introduced the term.
-"Information Superhighway (will) allow us to share
information, to connect, and to communicate as a global
community".
 Definition
• High-capacity, interactive electronic pipeline providing
integrated services.
• The Information Superhighway is very much a physical
network, an infrastructure of modern high-speed links.

6.  Links everyone at home or office to everything else.
 The Information Superhighway is a physical network,
facilitating the broadband, two-way transmission of any type
of digital information, within its own virtual space.
 Digitization
1. Integrity of the information
2. Manipulation
3. Compression
4. Convergence

7.  In practicality it is identical to internet provided
-connections are broadband
-they are continuously running.
 Broadband
-ability to stack frequencies on a single
transmission medium, providing multiple
channels on the same wire.
-supports 150-750 kbps in both upstream
and downstream.

8. -connections to internet must be able to support two
way video communication as a broadband enough.
 Internet and infrastructure
-As internet develops into I-way, changes will take place in
infrastructure not in internet.
 Inernet and worldwide web(www)
-it is possible to use internet without www.
-explosion of the www made the internet I-way.

9.  Demands and requirements of market participants.
• Users: becoming information publishers.
• Consumers, end users, or businesses:
consuming information products/services.
• ISPs: commercial, government or private.
• Value added information providers:
includes third party brokers, intermediaries, originators
of services who add value to services provided by others.

10.  Strategic alliances and I-way infrastructure:
• Large resource requirement.
• Alliance between communication, entertainment, and
information sectors.
• Alliance to reduce risks, spread costs and acquire costly
expertise in different area instantly.

12.  Set-Top Boxes
 Computer-Based Telephony
 Digital Switches
 Routers
 Hubs

14.  Computer-Based Telephony
 Digital Switches
 Routers
 Hubs

16.  Wiring linking homes with backbone
 Requirement of huge investment
 Divided into four categories
 Also known as “Last Mile”

17.  Telephone-Based Infrastructure
 Cable TV-Based Infrastructure
 Wireless Infrastructure
 Commercial On-Line Infrastructure

18.  Most common last mile infrastructure
 Can handle millions of simultaneous calls
 Lacks digital transmission

19.  Wired Cable TV
 Wireless Cable TV

20.  Cellular, Microwave, and Specialized
mobile radio data networks
 Advantages over terrestrial networks

21.  Application and Growth
 The Microsoft Network

22.  Long-Distance Networks
 Satellite Networks

23.  Cost
 Subsidies
 Allocation of Scare Resources
 Regulation
 Universal Access
 Information Policy Issues
 Social and Religious Barriers

24.  Andrew B. Whinston and Ravi Kalakota, „’Frontiers of
Electronic Commerce”
 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_superhighway
 lbl.gov/Science/Articles/Archive/information-
superhighway

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