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
- 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
- 1997 will be the year for Internet Videoconferencing
- using $150 digital color cameras attached to multimedia PC
- new scanner technology to hit the market
- 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.
MWCN'97, 14 May 1997
G.Q.Maguire Jr. (maguire@it.kth.se)
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