The Future of the Internet
The world of IP networking certainly has a rosy future. The industry anticipates a general convergence of voice and data networks. Gateways between traditional voice networks and IP networks are already commercially available, and many multimedia applications now support operation over an IP network.
As the installed base of fiber increases, you can expect IP routers to interface directly to fiber via Packet Over Sonet (POS) at extremely high speeds. Each fiber interface may support thousands of aggregated customer connections.
Router technology will, therefore, need both speed enhancements and feature enhancements to provide gateway capabilities for today's legacy voice networks. Massive increases in the number of ...
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