The Complete Free Services Picture

The primary beneficiaries of the free software and free protocols concept are the service providers who deliver subscriber services based on free software and free protocols.

Users/Subscribers want solutions. Free software needs to be adequately framed and delivered to be of value.

Such delivery often involves matching/marrying free software with corresponding free services.

Here we describe the free model as we propose it.

There are four arenas of control, as shown in Figure 4.3. These are:

1. User Environment
2. Subscriber Server in User Environment
3. Subscriber Services Environment
4. User governed - Service Provider Premise Equipment

User Environment - Free Subscriber Environemnt

• Desk Top
• Lap Top
• PDA Environment (Linux PDA, WinCE, PalmOS, etc.)

• EOE on desktop
• 802.11 on Laptop
• WWAN on PDA - LEAP

Subscriber Environment Premise Equipment

Current examples are limited to layer 2 and layer 3 agents. ATTBI's modem. Cisco routers, etc.

Free Service Provider Environemnts

Linux, Solaris, occasionally and tactically NT.

Service Provider Environment Subscriber Premise Equipment