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Chapter 5: Findings and Recommendations
Chapter 5: Findings and Recommendations
Pages 57-68
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The committee's findings below outline challenges to the telecommunications sector's continuing capacity for innovation. The recommendations that follow identify actions that the U.S.
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The health of the U.S. telecommunications sector depends on maintaining leadership in innovation.
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U.S. critical infrastructure, national defense, and homeland security, which depend on having uninterrupted access to leading-edge telecommunications technology, are potentially threatened by the loss of a domestic telecommunications industry.
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industry R&D in general. The impact has been significant, underscoring the historical importance of industry research and mirroring the rapidity of the telecommunications sector's restructuring following divestiture in 1984.
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could sustain a high level of long-term, fundamental research investments, but this proved impossible given the profound changes occurring in the industry. The telephone companies, facing growing competition, all but eliminated long-term, fundamental research programs, leaving responsibility for technological innovation to their equipment vendors.
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Moreover, no single entity is able to appropriate the results of long-term, fundamental research or to comprehensively address the engineering and standardization issues associated with end-to-end solutions that must span multiple service providers and multiple sectors of the industry. The research that can be conducted by a single vendor or sector is less well positioned to tackle end-to-end issues, and the need to coordinate decisions among a multitude of players greatly complicates achieving major new architectural advances.
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The recommendations are all aimed at so-called precompetitive activities; when the time arrives for development, implementation, and deployment, it will be up to equipment and software suppliers to create and manufacture the products and to service providers to deploy the necessary facilities and services. Determining how much funding to provide for such a telecommunications research initiative involves, of course, a complex set of budgetary tradeoffs among research programs and between research and non-research activities.
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Recommendation 1 and Recommendation 2 below both contemplate significant federal support for telecommunications research. However, their full effects will come only with the participation of both service providers and equipment vendors.
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establishing research priorities, (2) identifying complementary investments and actions required to realize major advances, and (3)
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Advisory committees with representatives from equipment suppliers and service providers would help ensure that ATRA is responsive to industry needs. The participation of high-level executives is critical to both ensuring ATRA's relevance and sustaining industry buy-in and support for ATRA activities.
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adversaries by virtue of the burgeoning commercial telecommunications sector overseas and (2) the risks associated with having to rely on components and systems that are increasingly being developed overseas.
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should consider identifying and using mechanisms through which they could provide more support for fundamental research. ATRA, proposed in Recommendation 1, is intended to provide a way for the telecommunications industry to pool funds, spread risk, and share beneficial results through cooperative efforts between industry and academia that are jointly funded by industry and government.
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