To All, food for thought -
From the CSCO thread:
To: briand who wrote (28046)
From: elmatador
Tuesday, Aug 31 1999 5:22PM ET
Reply # of 28050
Lets do some thinking. I had for a while this model of the next next generation network. I called it the networks to end all the other networks. Please, bear with me, because everybody
says that no one knows how it is going to look like. I hope you read on.
The pieces are follwoing in place now. Ive been following IBM, EMC, CSCO, Intel and DWDM start ups. Even the cost of optical fiber connectors. Picture that.
you have Storage Area Networks (SAN), say servers farms, huge amount of content stored in there, linked to other SANs which its own server farms via fiber. Machines such as
CERENT (or Optical Networks, that startup Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers funds) pumps data in and out this bandwidth monster DWDM on steroids access nodes. Robust stuff
cum with security.
Since we are at IBM. Look to IBM, all those mainframes, with the whole installed base of software, the data of insurance companies, Banks, airlines, carmakers etc etc. Imagine the
mainframes that process billing for public utilities which will be unbundled.
That and all the data that needed to be accessed and "massaged" by people all accross the internet, could be accessible. And will need to. Because the e commerce and ebusiness is gonna
need all that. Under this perspective the KPMG is looking clearer now, you know, in the end how taxes will be collected has to be sorted out.
This next next generation network will allow companies to do business in a very cost effective way and obviuosly the first one to assemble the whole thing in a coherent whole will
become somewhat like that company in Pacific NorthWest.
Have you noticed that when you want more speed on your network, or fats bit rate in your connection to the internet, you dont want fast rate. What you REALLY want is the fastest
possible access to the CONTENT seating on those servers accross the internet.
The more the price of optcal fiber connectors come dowm the more this neowrk beocme possible. Fiber straight to the back of the server, fibre channel. Perhaps CSCO even go for a
fibre channel company, next.
I will come back on all that next time. |
