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To: Joe Wagner who wrote (1293)	4/20/1999 9:58:00 PM
From: George Gilder	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 5853

I believe the most relevant technology is Digital Fountain, which allows you, with just six percent overhead, to install any file (assume a 6 gigabyte film or a 50 megabyte software suite) using any six gigabytes (or 50 megs) in any order with any delays. It's like a holographic file format. There will be plenty of room on the net for storage area networks, but the real action will happen on the edge of the net, absorbing security, identity, and robust downloads. I think that the storage area formats will be inherited from the net, rather than from the supercomputer center. In other words, the SANs will ultimately be based on WDM lambdas and IP rather than on fiber channel protocols.