To: Ian@SI who wrote (13562 ) 10/9/1999 4:55:00 PM From: pat mudge Read Replies (2) | Respond to
This week the eyes of the world are focused on Geneva. telecom99news.itu.int telecom99news.itu.int telecom99news.itu.int The dramatic growth of the Internet has propelled American companies with advanced technologies onto the world stage. Currently, there are an estimated 60 to 100 million Internet users worldwide. In a report issued by market research firm Datamonitor PLC (London) in February 1999, the worldwide Internet traffic market is expected to double to US$19 billion by 2002. The cost of transferring data is decreasing because of technological advances--such as dense wavelength-division multiplexing (DWDM)--and demand is rising as users continue to require more bandwidth. Major research houses agree that telcos' main business will be radically shifted by 2005 to the operation of packet-switched communications networks. This will be fueled by the transition to-and extensive growth of-the Internet protocol (IP). telecom99news.itu.int . . . Content itself will be fool's gold. It's not worth pursuing. The key is aggregation of content." Information is expanding geometrically. The number of information "destinations" is similarly proliferating. Access to both is becoming widespread and instantaneous. So how do you find what you're looking for? telecom99news.itu.int telecom99news.itu.int . . .Most new market players enter the European market cautiously by leasing capacity from established carriers, typically incumbents. Eventually, each company realizes that to be profitable, it must invest in its own infrastructure. telecom99news.itu.int . . .The established vendors also are supporting both ATM and IP because it's not yet clear which will emerge as the next-generation network backbone, although in practice, the vendors expect more ATM to be used (or IP over ATM), at least until IP quality-of-service issues shake out.. . . telecom99news.itu.int telecom99news.itu.int telecom99news.itu.int
