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DAY 2
He added, “My son says that the great innova-
tion of the day is that Amazon delivers the same
day. We’re clearly in a world where providing an
instant response to things is important.”
EdgeConneX’s Brouckman noted that for his
company the explosion of content and applications
is the defining aspect of the industry’s future growth.
“If you think in a linear fashion, youwill fail,”he said.
“300 hours of YouTube video is uploaded everyminute,
as are 9million pieces of richmedia on Facebook
per month. Twitter’s Periscope is new, but there are 2
million peoplewatching 350,000 daily hours already.”
He added, “We saw that over-the-top (OTT)
content was truly going to change how people
consume everything, the amount of traffic that
video drives,” he said. “The peering structure that
existed in an Internet that was originally built for
e-mail wasn’t going to work.”
EdgeConneX focuses on moving the Internet
edge closer to where people consume content, via
its edge data centers. In two years, it has already
deployed 23 facilities.
For her part, TNCI CEO Thomas, said that having
a hybrid portfolio has been a defining aspect for
her company’s strategy. “Many of our customers
have legacy TDM, but they’re transitioning to the
cloud, so we have found it important to have a
hybrid strategy that includes voice plus cloud. We
can work across multilocations and put together
an offering that leverages our relationships that we
have with other telcos and CLECs to best serve our
customers with tailored solutions.”
The panel also discussed desired FCC priorities.
Brouckman said that overcoming the hurdles that
are put in front of operators in terms of building out
networks and cell towers should be a top issue.
“A full 61 percent of spectrum is locked up by
the government—and we need that spectrum to
unlock innovation, and to do more to enable more
broadband to more places,” he said.
Thomas noted that regulatory priorities should
revolve around addressing special access, where
incumbents still have a dominating presence, as
well as working to eliminate lock-in contracts.
Competition, Ancell said, is the key to business
transformation for the industry, both nowandmoving
forward—and the FCC’s continuing defense of it is
encouraging.“If we existed in aworldwhere there are
one or two or three companies that were allowed to
completely control the services that went tomarket
and control that based on their benefit, wouldwe really
be the leader of the Internet economy?” o
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(Keynotes, continued from page 4)