As LANs and WANs expand to accommodate graphics, video, and other increasingly dense files, it’s unclear how wireless networks will interact. As it stands now, wireless users tapping into an FDDI LAN will be taking a sip from a firehose.
Predictor: Marino, Craig
Prediction, in context:In a 1993 article he wrote for Red Herring, Craig Marino, at the time an associate at Broadview Associates, an information technology investment bank, says: ”Looking further into the interaction between wire-based and wireless networks gives rise to questions about applications and bandwidth. As LANs and WANs expand to accommodate graphics, video, and other increasingly dense files, it’s unclear how wireless networks will interact. As it stands now, wireless users tapping into an FDDI LAN will be taking a sip from a firehose.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1993
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Pipeline/Switching/Hardware
Name of publication: Red Herring
Title, headline, chapter name: The Great Wireless Hope
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.redherring.com/mag/issue04/great.html
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Stotler, Larry