Welcome to HYPERcommunication.netBusiness Reference Guide to Voice & Data Telecommunications Convergence (HYPERCOMMUNICATION)
All rights reserved, (Copyright) 2000, 2001
Dear Visitor: Almost a year old, I'd like to thank the many who have visited hypercommunication.net.
This site is based on my Ph.D. dissertation research and on consulting work in business and agribusiness communications (voice, data, Internet, etc.). Since my research concerns technical, economic, and business subjects in the hypercommunications field, this site has information on hundreds of subjects in diverse fields. Thus, do not expect short, USA Today-like "factoids".

 
    Instead, this site is meant to help businesses (especially agribusinesses) to understand some of the technical and economic implications of converged voice and data networks. The way businesses communicate is evolving into a new model (hypercommunications), based on access to high-speed, high-capacity voice and data networks. Access depends on the factors mentioned throughout this site. Understanding hypercommunication services and technologies will be increasingly important to businesses and employees.

 
   HYPERCOMMUNICATION.NET is designed to help businesses and people learn about the convergence of telecommunications into hypercommunications. Because the site contains over 1,000 pages of text and hundreds of graphics, you need to be able to find what you need.  It is organized by chapter. Since each chapter has many individual topics, there are several ways to find what you need.

 

 

---Dean G. Fairchild, November 2001.

 
To navigate this site:

Overview (Ch.  1) of my Ph.D. dissertation research
in Food& Resource (AGRICULTURAL) Economics at the University of Florida. Tells objectives, methodology, brief introduction, and gives a brief overview of the study.
 
 

WHY?do businesses need HYPERcommunications (Economically)? (Ch. 2)
Because of the Information Economy (New Economy, Knowledge Economy). Details about the information economy. What is HYPERcommunication & Why is it replacing telecommunication? Why communication, technology, and information are making four separate communications networks (telephone, enhanced telecommunications, private data networks, and the Internet) converge into one HYPERcommunication network.

Whydo businesses need HYPERcommunications (Technically)?
Technical and Economic Foundations of HYPERcommunication Networks (Ch. 3)
Chapter 3 explains why HYPERcommunications exist  by tracing the origins of communication networks and the resulting network economics (new economics). Chapter 3 shows how technical and economic components are jointly shaping the business foundation for hypercommunications. Differences between telephone networks and computer networks, OSI model, economic history of computer networks.

WHAT are HYPERcommunications
Services & Technologies (Ch. 4)
Detailed explanations of  WHAT HYPERcommunication services and technologies are.
TRANSMISSION TECHNOLOGIES (WIRELINE & WIRELESS): Illustrated technical explanations of what bandwidth, data rate, and QOS mean are given, along with various wireline (copper, cable, fiber) and wireless (mobile, fixed terrestrial, satellite) infrastructures.
The second half of this 300 page chapter features a BUSINESS GUIDE TO SERVICES:
Subjects include: DSL (x-DSL, ADSL, IDSL, HDSL, HDSL2, VDSL, RADSL, VeDSL, CMT, CAP), ISDN-BRI, ISDN-PRI, T-1, T-3, SONET, cable modems, how 56 kbps modems work, fixed wireless (MMDS, LMDS, DEMS, WLL, WCS, 2.4 GHz, etc., satellite:NGSO, GEO, MEO, LEO, etc.), standards, converged networks, VPNs etc.

WHERE? and HOW?
Infrastructure, Deregulation, Taxation, Universal Service, and Universal Access (Chapter 5)
How and where of HYPERcommunications infrastructure and regulation.
How refers to how deregulation, re-regulation, taxation, and FCC policy goals such as universal access and universal service will be used as mechanisms to help determine where infrastructures are deployed and access is available. The economics of policy responses affects how and where infrastructures will be developed, and what kinds of HYPERcommunication services will be available to Florida's businesses. Rural infrastructure in Florida is carefully analyzed.


HOW COME? businesses need HYPERcommunications?
What do companies need? Agribusiness & small business
HYPERcommunication Needs (Ch. 6)
Chapter 6 covers market boundaries, bundling, and specific business communication needs. Chapter 6 covers "How come?" your business needs HYPERcommunications.

HOW MUCH? should businesses pay for HYPERcommunications?
FROM WHOM? should a business buy? (Ch. 7)
        Chapter lists main providers in Florida: ILECs, CLECs (ALECs), ISPs, NSPs (Tier 1 backbone providers), mobile and fixed wireless vendors (MMDS, LMDS, WLL, DEMS, 2,4 GHz unlicensed spread-spectrum, satellite carriers). Summary of prices for T-1, DSL, voice, Internet, other services. Since most of Chapter 7 is proprietary, links to two appendices that cover S. Miami-Dade County Florida ONLY are provided.
  List of References
    A variety of academic, economic, business, agricultural, Internet, equipment vendors, state and federal government, and carrier sources were used. References include Internet links, FCC reports, FPSC reports, Internet links, academic research,  and industry white papers.

Links Page
Links to topics by chapter
(Under Development)
  • 1. General links
  • 2. Economic Basis for HYPERcommunications
  • 3. Technical Basis for HYPERcommunications
  • 4. HYPERcommunications services and technologies
  • 5. Infrastructure, Deregulation, Taxation, Universal Service-Universal Access-Taxation, Policy
  • 6. Bundling, Market Boundaries, specific agribusiness hypercommunication needs
  • 7. Carriers Serving Florida, Pricing and Buying Advice, Conclusions, Recommendations
  • 8. General Educational and Informational Links
    • Site Map (UNDER CONSTRUCTION)
    RESUME (econometrics, statistical modeling, & market research)

    RESUME (sales & sales engineering)

    Also see list of selected publications and work examples.


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    Dr. Dean G. "Gordy" Fairchild, e-mail:dfairchild@hypercommunication.net

     
     
     
     
     

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