[Air-L] Impact of AT&T divestiture on American college anduniversity campus computer networks?

[Heidelberg, Chris]

Living in the DC/Baltimore area with Hopkins, MD, Georgetown, GW, UMBC,
George Mason, Howard and Morgan are all research intensive and there is
a lot of bandwidth. I can tell you that the AT&T break up is the key to
the web of today. Judge Green actually found AT&T to be a monopoly in
1982 (I believe that AT&T had been under a consent decree dating back to
1956 and the original suit was filed by MCI in 1968). I believe they
were given two years to get it affairs in orders. 

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anduniversity campus computer networks?

This is a fantastic topic, and definitely post whatever output of this
research topic back to the list.

You might find Ed Malecki's paper on regional bandwidth provision an
interesting paper. It finds a very strong correlation between the amount
of bandwidth in a region and the presence of a Ph.D granting
institution. Universities were usually the core around a regional
network. I'm not exactly sure how it directly relates to your topic, but
it might give some interesting context.

The citation is Malecki, E. (2004). Fibre tracks: Explaining investment
in fibre optic backbones. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development,
16:21-39.

Cheers,

Ben Spigel
Department of Geography
The Ohio State University
On 10/16/07, elw at stderr.org <elw at stderr.org> wrote:
>
>
> >   While I certainly welcome input on the broader topic, I turn to 
> > you to recommend sources to help me understand what effect, if any, 
> > the 1984 divestiture of AT&T may have had on the development of 
> > American college and university campus computer networks and 
> > telecommunications, particularly computer networks installed in 
> > residence halls.  From primary and secondary sources, I already know

> > that some institutions (the pioneers, as far as I can tell) began 
> > installing and experimenting with in-room network connections in the

> > mid 80s.  So the timing is right
>
> Great topic!
>
> There were ghetto/private/totally-unauthorized networks running in the

> dorms at my undergrad institution a full decade (plus some...) before 
> the dorms were formally wired by the university.  RG-58 coax running 
> down exterior drainpipes, through windows, et cetera.  This stuff has 
> been going on for ages.  :-)
>
> There was some history of private CATV wiring on the same campus, also

> done somewhat independently...
>
> --elijah
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