8 The Future

 

 

Executive Summary

“How can you be in two places at once when you’re nowhere at all to begin with?”—The Firesign Theater

The rate of technical development in videoconferencing continues along a high-speed, zigzag trail. Over the past year, there have been twists and turns in the progress of video technology that few would have expected. The spread of wide area Ethernet, bandwidth logjams on cable modem networks, and interconnection logjams on digital subscriber lines (DSL) are just few of the business twists that the trail has taken in the past few months. The cliff-hanging saga of G3 wireless has shown clearly how the fate ...

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