Re: [gaia] draft-irtf-gaia-alternative-network-deployments. Mitar review, question #3. Typical scenarios

[Henning Schulzrinne <[e-mail]>]

You also get a higher density of commercial entities that can make
infrastructure deployment feasible, e.g., fiber to office buildings or
factories.

On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 2:37 AM, Jim Forster <[e-mail]> wrote:

> (Perhaps covered already in the draft…)
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> Sometimes, especially in developing countries, rural also loosely implies
> a poorer economic situation (average income per capita) than metro areas in
> the same country, and frequently reduced general infrastructure (roads,
> water systems, grid power) than the metro areas.  I think one of the
> drivers for migration to cities in developing counties is somewhat better
> infrastructure in cities than in the rural areas.
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> On Apr 12, 2016, at 6:59 PM, Henning Schulzrinne <[e-mail]>
> wrote:
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> Defining "rural" is surprisingly difficult - the US government is rumored
> to have 50 definitions. From a networking perspective, it's very different
> whether you connect isolated rural dwellings, separated by miles, or
> villages, with clusters of a few hundred residences. (In the US, think
> Vermont small town vs. individual farms in Kansas or Oklahoma or homes
> along rural streets in West Virginia.)
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> One distinction is the average (or median) distance between network end
> points.
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