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Table 1.2 gives a comparison of communications technologies in terms of the approx. time
required to send le with a size of 1MB.
e merging of previously disparate technologies, products, and information to give rise to
compelling new products and services also underscores the concept of the merging of the con-
tainer and content that we referred to earlier. Convergence increasingly means that products in the
Table 1.2 Comparison of Communications Technologies
Communications Technology Bandwidth Time for Sending
1MB File
Modem using analog signal
over phone line
28.8kB/s 5min
ISDN using digital signal ...