Everyone seems to be embracing a collapsed backbone technology today. However, the interesting question is how much internetworking will be done on the floor and how much will be done in the basement. The internetworking that goes on the floor must absolutely be plug-and-play, while the more complex functions will be collapsed into the basement.
Predictor: Hart, John
Prediction, in context:In a 1993 Network World article, John Hart, chief technical officer at 3Com Corp., discusses the issues shaping technology and the market in an interview with reporter Skip MacAskill at ComNet ’93 in Washington, D.C. MacAskill quotes Hart saying: ”Everyone seems to be embracing a collapsed backbone technology today. However, the interesting question is how much internetworking will be done on the floor and how much will be done in the basement. The internetworking that goes on the floor must absolutely be plug-and-play, while the more complex functions will be collapsed into the basement.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1993
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Network World
Title, headline, chapter name: Busy Internet Keeps Managers on Toes; 3Com Exec Discusses Choices Net Managers Must Make in this World of Constant Change
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
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