论文标题
通用宽带服务不可能吗？
Is Universal Broadband Service Impossible?
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论文摘要
宽带互联网服务被普遍期望成为21世纪的基本通用服务。但是，十多年来，国家和国际努力弥补了宽带与宽带之间的数字鸿沟，而没有表明达到全球普遍性将是一项非常艰巨的任务。本文认为，当前宽带范式 - 低潜伏期和持续可用性所提供的强大保证是其作为负担得起且普遍的数字服务采用的不必要障碍。我们表明，仍然存在一种合理的策略，用于部署不需要此类保证的基本宽带服务，并且能够以合理的成本提供几乎所有目前在低延迟宽带，同步远程列表中提供的关键和有价值的服务和应用程序。
Broadband Internet service is widely expected to be the fundamental universal service for the 21st century. But more than a decade of national and international struggles to close the digital divide between broadband haves and have nots suggest that reaching global universality will be a very difficult task. This paper argues that the strong guarantees made by the current broadband paradigm - low latency and constant availability - are unnecessary obstacles to its adoption as an affordable and universal digital service. We show that there is nonetheless a plausible strategy for deploying a Basic Broadband service that does not require such guarantees and is able to offer, at reasonable cost, almost all the critical and valuable services and applications currently delivered over low latency broadband, synchronous telepresence excepted.
