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To: Robert who wrote (31371)	4/27/2000 7:10:00 PM
From: alydar	Respond to of 64865

Thanks Robert for your input. I not sure I fully understood everything you wrote but I am sure that your input is useful to this thread. Thanks, Bob.

To: Robert who wrote (31371)	4/27/2000 11:06:00 PM
From: Charles Tutt	Respond to of 64865

Surely somebody has plotted MIPS shipped vs. Megabytes shipped over time so we could look at the trend. It seems like that kind of historical data would be a better tool for decision making than conjecture by EMC.

To: Robert who wrote (31371)	4/28/2000 4:16:00 AM
From: tiquer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Robert or anyone who can answer... I think the big future for the net is distribution of streaming Video... Can you tell me the specifics as to how this works right now.. Is the server more important for sending out a video clip or is the storage more important?? Lets say 100 people, almost simultaneously, try to view the same video, real time... What piece of hardware is most important to get this done?? I'm not talking "porn" here, which is prevalent right now I suppose... I'm talking.. real time news, sporting events, educational materials, entertainment, historical events, births, anything and EVERYTHING.... I'm more and more viewing video clips off the net.. It only makes sense to be able to view what you want when you want it... it boggles my mind how huge this will be... History from now on needs to be archived with video... every event that happens around the world at any given time, really should be available to anyone in the world who wants to view it at any given time in the future.... It make sense to me that storage requirements will be unbelievably huge, but will it be possible for the storage device to push this information out directly to the network?? It does seem possible to me, but I sure don't know enough about how this all works... Can the next generation servers, storage, networks all be optics based??? Will Sun and EMC be the leaders??? We will all be uploading our own digital videos to some storage bank... "The Network is the Computer".... this will never change... ;-) Roger