Hi Wiz,
Well I guess it's about Time I came out of Lurking. <gg> I wasn't sure which thread I should post on. Since we already correspond I thought I would start here.
I have been following the thread(s) with much interest. There is some great information here, lots to digest. I'm glad the Tomato Man actually visited the new data center. He was obviously impressed, I would have liked to know what Michael was wearing though. <ggg>
I have a couple of technical questions though, maybe your or someone else would be able to answer for me.
I have been reading in some of my trade magazines about video and networking. Specifically the fact that 'most' companies networks are not up to snuff when it comes to being able to handle the traffic associated with video. Since video is a huge bandwidth hog. Not really a problem if your investing in COMS or CSCO. <ggg>
Has anyone seen any 'specs' on the new internet site and/or product FNTN is working on.
What are the requirements on the user side?? I assume they are using Ethernet as ATM is very expensive to implement.
Do we know if they are using Siemens home grown software for data transmission or something from First Virtual etc..
These questions may have already been answered but any further input would be greatly appreciated.
I'll print the last couple of paragraphs for the article I read yesterday. So if anyone is still on the fence, as I was, maybe this will convince them FNTN has definitely got the right idea.
From "SunExpert" a server workstation magazine (covers AIX (UNIX),NT and SUN products) "Intranets still not ready for video". June 98
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"Eventually, proponents expect more companies to identify applications that can benefit from video transmissions. 'Because timely access to information has become a top concern in just about every company, managers are interested in applications such as downloading daily financial news broadcasts to employees desktops,' Says Sun's Martin. (hmmm sound familiar)
Because there are so many hurdles to overcome in deploying these applications, two to five years may pass before they are widely implemented. 'Video acceptance has occurred much more slowly than we anticipated, yet there has been progress,' Says First Virtual's Nielsen. 'The markets evolutions reminds me of the talk about LANs in the late 1980s. Every year, there were predictions that this year would be the year of the LAN. There was no on Year of the LAN, buy by the early 1990s, most corporations had installed them. We don't anticipate one year when corporations will jump on video, but we expect that in a few years most organizations will be running video applications.'
There is also a good article in Fortune this week about video on demand. I couldn't find on the on-line version. I'll bring my print one in tomorrow and search their site for it.
Good Investing everyone!!
Take Care
Ann |
