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To: Mazman who wrote (3742)1/9/1999 10:25:00 AM
From: Mazman  Read Replies (2) of 11568
 
Listen to John Sidgmore's Speech

"Riding the Internet Express"
Closing keynote from the Digital Economy Conference in San Francisco.

webevents.broadcast.com

You need to register to access the video feed. Click on the icon for the Thursday 10:15 session -- "Innovation and the Competitve Edge"

Here are some of Sidgmore's key points:

- Internet bandwidth capacity is growing at a rate of 10 times per year.
- The world's data networks will be as big as its voice networks by next year.
- Before long, switched telephony will be a tiny percentage of the total.
- New-wave telecom companies like Worldcom and Qwest understand this and are blowing away the foundations of the old telecom establishment.
- Many applications will rise to capitalize on this new utility. -"Boring" corporate applications are just now coming onstream.
- Full multimedia for both consumers and business will be huge.
- "Cockroaches"-wireless communicating computing devices, also known as personal smart appliances-will be ubiquitous. Within a few years we'll all be carrying or wearing five or so on our bodies. - This wireless revolution will be another huge take on what is already a massive change for both providers and users.
- As the masses get hooked, variable pricing will arrive for premium bandwidth and other quality of service features.
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