John Chamber's interview in Sept. Upside.....
upside.com.
Upside: You've been saying lately that you believe the voice,
video and data networks will become one network in the future.
In other words, telephones, cable television and the Internet will
merge. And you believe the voice part, or long-distance
telephony, will be free. Why?
Chambers: Because the data load and the video load will far exceed
the voice load. We can argue whether that will happen in 2001 or
2004, but whenever it occurs, voice will ride nominally on top of the
other two. For marketing reasons as well as practical reasons, you'll
automatically put your voice on the video/data network.
Cisco is an example. We [put] our voice on the back of our data
network [for calling outside of] North America. It saves me $30,000 a
month in [talking to] Japan because I already had the data line, and the
majority of the time I've got extra capacity on it. So, I just put the
voice on top of it, at a dramatically lower cost.
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