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Non-Tech : Any info about Iomega (IOM)?
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To: Michael Rick who wrote (8369)10/5/1996 12:12:00 PM
From: paul flint   of 58324
 
Mr. Rick, While technically correct that a faster modem allows you to transfer data faster, this is not the whole story. There are some major bottlenecks in network technology right now.

I just spent like a half-hour trying unsuccessfully on a Saturday morning to get into my subscriptions at the WSJ and Barrons, as well as the Globe and Mail. The network is jammed up! The more it gets used, the more jammed it will get.

The Oracle CEO who thinks the "network can be the computer" is out of his mind. Right now, the network can't even be a newspaper!

The problem with a cable modem is twofold: 1) the cable bandwidth is SHARED with all other subscribers on that segment. As other users on your segment start using it, your average bandwidth decreases. 2) the routing between the cable company and the internet backbone is critical. Even with T3 right in to the backbone, if they are routing a couple thousand subscribers from several cable segments to the internet, you might as well have a 1200 baud point-to-point connection for all the good it's going to do you! And, in my cynical way, I kind of doubt whether the cable companies will actually join the backbone, but will seek to avoid backbone responsibilities by buying bandwidth from a vendor -- one more bottleneck!

Local storage is not going away any time soon. The Internet is a toy. People mostly play on it. They collect stuff. And Iomega has positioned themselves nicely for "stuff" storage.
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