What is the short term time line?

1996, 40% of the telecom budget of the Fortune 500 companies is FAX traffic

==> distributed "printing" and FAXing

How much can this reduce traditional FAXing? perhaps to 2%

numerous PDAs now have FAX viewers built-in

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1996 was the year the public was introduced to Internet Telephony

• multimedia PCs - comes with support for stereo audio

==> what will be the usage curve for Internet Telephony?

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1997 will be the year for Internet Videoconferencing

• using $150 digital color cameras attached to multimedia PC
• new scanner technology to hit the market

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1998 will be the year of mobile internet multimedia computers

• especially in local area settings - using wireless LANs, DECT, ...
• perhaps in urban and campus settings - this could challenge cellular telephone systems ADSL (VDSL, ...) enables new use of telephone access net to build mobile infrastructure.