Telecommunications two infrastructures
- Public
- Regulated monopolies, PTTs, ...
- 15 to 30 year ammortization periods
- high prices and low performance
- Mobile telephone as the hottest growth area
- Customer owed
- LANs moving to 100s Mbits/sec to Gbits/sec
- 3-5 year amortization
- interfaces are just put on the motherboard - since an additional connector would be more expensive!
- very low cost and high performance
- Internet/Intranet/... as the hottest growth area