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To: zbyslaw owczarczyk who wrote (14940)	11/22/1999 5:47:00 PM
From: fumble	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18016

ZO - Thanks for the link - Arno Penzias is cool. I heard him talk in Chicago a few years back. On the interview - Do I sense a certain convergence of opinion on IP? quantumbridge.com << Q: What will the network of the future look like? A: There will be copper and there will be fiber, there will be fixed radio and mobile and satellite, and each one will fill its own niche. On top of these there will be a variety of protocols. No one size fits all. There will be a lot of complexity, and your machines will attach to whatever is out there. You will see the emergence of things like bandwidth-on-demand, where you can share a pipe and get the bandwidth you need. But Internet Protocol [the software lingua franca of the Net] isn't going to solve every problem. Not all of this stuff is going to be handled by a single goddamn Internet Protocol network. Q: Who said it would be? A: Well, John Chambers [CEO of Cisco Systems (CSCO)] says the telephone is a dinosaur. He's a great man, but his mentality is that you should get rid of your phone and use your computer instead. Give me a break. The telephone is convenient, it works, it goes in your pocket. The mistake he's making is to think that the world is going to be a neater place, that Internet Protocol will do everything. I think it'll be quite the opposite. Things are getting more diverse. >>