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Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Moderated Thread - please read rules before posting -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Cooters who wrote (6000)	1/7/2001 8:22:14 PM
From: arun gera	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 196804

High Bandwidth Absorbers Graphics and picture/photo/video intensive applications are big bandwidth hogs. But how often do we watch video (other that playing in the broadcast mode) and that too while on the road. It seems a good percentage of posters on this board use a DSL or Cable modem connection. How many of us really download and watch video content on a daily basis? I know we all download stock charts which are data intensive. The proliferation of webcam sites such as ifriends.com and others indicate that there is some demand for paid broadband srevices (for voyeurism if nothing else). Downloading web-cam pictures of loved ones in day-care and adult community is another daily and frequent use that comes to mind. Checking the security cams of your home is another possibility. Somebody rings your front bell and you can see the person on your PDA. As an engineer, I know that CAD files tend to get really large. I see the Wingcast as a possible absorber of high bandwidth. Real-time geo-specific traffic maps will be big hogs of badwidth. Assuming that the core map will be on a DVD in the car navigation system, a real-time color-coded map overlay will be periodically (or on demand) downloaded to give drivers a bird's eye view of traffic along a chosen route. The current radio traffic reports cannot compare with such a system. Napster is a big bandwidth hog. Its remains to be seen if the traffic will stabilize now that Napster is charging for its downloads. Arun