Thomas Y. Lee

Publications of Thomas Y. Lee

• Open Layered Networks: The Growing Importance of Market Coordination

  Authors: Petros Kavassalis, Joseph P. Bailey, Thomas Y. Lee

  06/2000;

  (*) Based upon the Internet perspective, this paper will attempt to clarify and revise several ideas about the separation between infrastructure facilities and service offerings in digital(*) Based upon the Internet perspective, this paper will attempt to clarify and revise several ideas about the separation between infrastructure facilities and service offerings in digital communications networks. The key notions that we will focus on in this paper are: i) the bearer service as a technology-independent interface which exports blind network functionality to applications development; ii) the organizational consequences associated with the emergence of a sustainable market of bearer service: a clear movement at the level of industrial structure from traditional hierarchies to more market coordination. (*) Note: The authors would like to thank the MIT Internet telephony Consortium for financial support. A previous version of this paper has been published in Bohlin and Levin (eds), 1998, Telecommunications Transformation, Technology, Strategy and Policy, IOS Press, Amsterdam, under the title: Sustaining a Vertically Disintegrated Network through a Bearer Servic...

• Open-layered networks: the growing importance of market coordination

  Authors: Petros Kavassalis, Joseph P. Bailey, Thomas Y. Lee

  Decision Support Systems.

  Based upon the Internet perspective, this paper will attempt to clarify and revise several ideas about the separation between infrastructure facilities and service offerings in digital communicationsBased upon the Internet perspective, this paper will attempt to clarify and revise several ideas about the separation between infrastructure facilities and service offerings in digital communications networks. The key notions that we will focus on in this paper are: (i) the bearer service (BS) as a technology-independent interface which exports blind network functionality to applications development; and (ii) the organizational consequences associated with the emergence of a sustainable market of BS: a clear movement at the level of industrial structure from traditional hierarchies to more market coordination.

• Sustaining a Vertically Disintegrated Network through a Bearer Service Market

  Authors: Petros Kavassalis, Thomas Y. Lee, Joseph P. Bailey

  Based upon the Internet perspective, this chapter will attempt to clarify and revise several ideas about the separation between infrastructure facilities and service offerings in digitalBased upon the Internet perspective, this chapter will attempt to clarify and revise several ideas about the separation between infrastructure facilities and service offerings in digital communications networks. The key notions that we will focus on in this paper are: i) the bearer service as a technology-independent interface which exports blind network functionality to applications development; ii) the sustainability of an independent market for bearer service and the organizational consequences associated with such a market.