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To: Robert Sheldon who wrote (32993)	7/16/1999 10:21:00 PM
From: Joe NYC	Respond to of 33344

Sheldon, I think we agree that bandwidth is the bottleneck now, and that in the future, it will be less so, as all those companies that you mentioned double the bandwidth every 4 months. I think that once the bandwidth becomes cheap and plentiful, we will come back to the original problem - latency, or ability of the "server" to give come up with the answer to a given task in timely manner. Suppose we use Internet as an example: a user clicks on a URL or a Submit button, and it takes 20 seconds to get what he wanted, 10 seconds to come up with what he wanted and 10 seconds to deliver it. If the user upgrades from 28 or 56K modem to > 1Mbs cable modem or xDSL, the delivery of the information will take < 1 second. At this point, the operator of the web site will not go out of his way to buy more bandwidth. He will instead work on the latency of his server - server hardware (CPU, memory) and software - or content. Moving voice from circuit switched to voice over IP network is another latency challenge. I think there is more than enough bandwidth at cheaper prices out there, compared to what telcos charge. The killer app for bandwidth will be video on demand, which will start the next wave of demand for bandwidth. That is, if Hollywood somehow doesn't kill video on demand by somehow witholding content) Joe