CES 2014: The IP Network Necessity With Robert McDowell
Description
Robert McDowell of the Hudson Institute discusses with Limor Schafman the necessity of IP to keep up with the upcoming quadrillions of connected everything that will take place. IOT/IOE is just at the beginning. McDowell speaks to the upcoming FCC Open Forum; the need for the US Congress to intelligently manage with the FCC the release of government agency controlled spectrum; the impact in countries not used to open networks which lead to governments trying to control the use of the networks; the damaging impact this has on innovation, investment and tech evolution; the importance of the Int'l Telecommunications Union Plenipotentiary Conference in Busan taking place on October, 2014; IPv6 and its necessary adoption and evolution to larger addressing protocols; and the interesting technology that will be developed to promote spectral efficiency.