What Will Broadband Unveil In A Decade?
Faster, cheaper, more ubiquitous bandwidth has spawned a decade of new applications that depend on it as a platform: Google, YouTube, Twitter, Hulu. The bigger pipes, the richer the application. What will higher bandwidth speeds, wider-reaching networks and cheaper access to connections produce in another decade? Well, if the panel made up by service providers and infrastructure gear makers at Structure knew for sure, they'd be on their way to producing the next Google. But a decade of bandwidth growth "will change the world another time," said Kenneth Duda, VP Software Engineering Arista Networks. "We cant even imagine the possibilities," said Tobias Ford, Assistant VP of IT AT&T, but suggested possibly bandwidth-needy applications like telepresence and telemedicine. In a decade, the panelists, and members of the audience, said they hope that the bandwidth discussion moves away from focusing on speed — basically the speed is so high it's no longer an issue — and moves towards the user interface and applications.
What Will Broadband Unveil In A Decade?