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At MIX Salon 2012 we welcome Pierpaolo Cristofori, CEO of Infracom Italia and we ask him
How do you think the balance between the access and content provider should work?
Should it become similar to how it works with telephony or should it stay as it is now with mutual agreements?
Thanks for the invitation. First of all I think it is important to make a distinction between the consumer world and the business world
where Infracom typically works. There is no doubt that for the consumers, when we speak about access and contents,
and particularly for the access, it is important to guarantee equality and net neutrality, using the correct limitations that basically means on a best-effort basis.
For the business world the approach is different, where contents are moving towards cloud computing where there is the true change.
It was interesting to hear a lively and stimulating debate on net neutrality, data protection,
neutrality of the applications which run on the net and these were pretty important statements.
In the business world it is very important as a driver of change the use of cloud computing, where some aspects
are truly fundamental and where, in my opinion, there is something different that needs to be addressed and regulated.
Today companies need to rely on guaranteed quality, and not on best-effort, they need to prioritize some contents that could be
mission critical for the company itself, they need to have security of data, they need to have all these characteristics managed properly because their fundamental data resides there.
At this point, my mission is to guarantee to these subjects that these aspects are preserved and available for those who want
to prioritize their traffic or to run cloud applications, possibly for the entire company.
The fundamental characteristic today which is hard to reach is the low latency of the network and local availability because
today the latency depends a lot on the distance and on what I put on the network, so it will be crucial for me to have the possibility
to use these features locally because there is no point in speaking of remote cloud computing
when actually the latency I need is reachable only if I run local to local.
I think these aspects are the ones we are asked to provide to our clients, and will characterize the new generation networks,
distinguishing the ones intented for the business users from the ones that we have to provide to the consumer users.
In my opinion this distiction is something that we always have to keep in mind.