The Microsoft CEO Summit - The Many Roads Ahead
Ray -
You've posted a few good ones this morning, thought I'd throw in one.
I guess someone got my mail :-)
JW@KSC
Remarks by Charles R. Lee
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer GTE CORPORATION
THE FOUR SEASONS OLYMPIC HOTEL SEATTLE, WASHINGTON
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And while a host of technologies will facilitate these developments, I want to highlight one particularly promising technology.
This technology is called ADSL - which stands for Asymmetrical Digital Subscriber Line.
Basically, ADSL enables the transmission of an enormous amount of information - at speeds ranging from 1.5 to 4 megabits per second - over existing, twisted pair, copper phone lines.
Let me tell you ... that's a lot of information ... transmitted in a very short period of time ... and much more cost-effectively than is the case using standard 28.8 modems and infrastructure.
From a business perspective, the real benefit of ADSL is that it will enable our employees to work from home as if they're plugged into their corporate LAN.
And ADSL isn't off in the distant future. It's happening right now.
In fact, GTE is conducting a major test of our ADSL technology right here in the Seattle area with Microsoft and a number of other companies. And the results are very encouraging.
So encouraging, in fact, that we've recently expanded the test to include an additional 1,000 Microsoft employees ... which makes the GTE ADSL test the largest of its kind in the world.
Over the next several years, we should see ADSL technologies rolling out in a big way around the country. The impact on business organizations and cultures could be dramatic.
All of these developments I've been discussing will be facilitated and enhanced by another key technological evolution. It's often referred to as Total Systems Integration ... and it's about to become reality.
We're not far away from the complete integration of local networks, Intranets, Extranets and the Internet ... through totally open, interconnecting systems. And this integration will make possible a host of business and residential applications ... everything from the interconnection of customer and supplier databases to unified messaging services that bring together messages from various services ... home voice mail ... work voice mail ... mobile voice mail, e-mail, faxes, paging.
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