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- From: brian@dxcern.cern.ch (Brian Carpenter CERN-CN)
- Subject: Re: Curious attitude ...
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.074342.5506@dxcern.cern.ch>
- Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics
- References: <22041@venera.isi.edu> <12409@pinard> <22064@venera.isi.edu> <12430@janice>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 07:43:42 GMT
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- In <12430@janice> grayt@Software.Mitel.COM (Tom Gray) writes:
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- >Video will not dominate network traffic. Voice traffic is an
- >order of magnitude greater than all other services combined.
- >Therefore voice considerations will dominate the design of
- >networks for the forseeable future. This was reported in
- >IEEE Network for May or June of 1990.
-
- The _total_ voice market is constrained by the total number of people
- in the world rich enough to have a telephone and the amount of time they
- want to talk. This means that the voice market has a future growth
- potential of only about one order of magnitude. The future growth
- potential for image and data transfer is unknowably high. Given that
- carriers invest for 20 or 30 year payback they would be very foolish
- to base plans on the current market share for voice. Indeed,
- nobody would be even _thinking_ about fiber to the home if this
- point was not understood.
-
- Regards,
- Brian Carpenter CERN, brian@dxcern.cern.ch
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