CISCO Summit Day 1 - Nicola Villa
December 09, 2007 by Chris | permalink
he introduced the CUD program...the RAND corporation was asked to figure out how to ensure that the US would survive an attack on its telecom system. PAUL BARAN suggested that the gov't should go to a fully distributed network, rather than a hub and spoke system.
CISCO made a committment to Clinton Global after the former president came to speak to the Board. John Chambers then said that the firm has to reduce this by the CARBON to COLLABORATION program. this was very effective in that it forced more tools to be developed. The second program is the CUD program. this program was founded one year ago. they found that emissions broke down as follows:
50% from buildings
25% from industry
25% from transportation
he told a story about when he was stuck in a traffic jam. he started to think about the options that he SHOULD have had. very compelling case for a unified information system. this is really about the 4th Utility. a new city infrastructure which provides:
1. content-based infrastructure that provides intelligence
2. open infrastructure that is used intelligently
3. symmetrical infrastructure that is designed intelligently
4. physical and virtual environment are intertwined thru services
5. location freedom due to the connection
the think-tank in SF will be 20/21st Fef
