Dial-up access and dedicated service to our customers are all part of the plan, including access via other switching systems such as ISDN, hyperstream frame relay, SMDS (switched multimegabit data service) and ATM (asynchronous transfer mode).
Predictor: Cerf, Vinton G.
Prediction, in context:In an Information Week article regarding the future of the Internet, Vinton Cerf discussed how companies will be able to earn money on the Net and what MCI and Sun are doing to make money online. Cerf says: ”We’re at the beginning stages of rolling out our ‘Internet-MCI’ services. Together with ‘marketplace-MCI,’ these are a very broad set of services, linked with the earlier ‘network-MCI’ business services: ISDN (integrated services digital network) teleconferencing, e-mail, news services, and so on. I’m very happy with the backbone MCI has built and feel relieved to know that we can scale it up to 155 Mbps. We’re providing transit services for many regional reseller nets and are linked to the rest of the worldwide Internet community through a number of packet exchanges, as well as supporting a number of direct international connections. Dial-up access and dedicated service to our customers are all part of the plan, including access via other switching systems such as ISDN, hyperstream frame relay, SMDS (switched multimegabit data service) and ATM (asynchronous transfer mode).”
Date of prediction: July 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Economic structures
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Information Week
Title, headline, chapter name: The Internet – Where’s It All Going?
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe/document?_m=b83c10508e19ffbee2b32765ce099c64&_docnum=13&wchp=dGLbVlz-lSlAl&_md5=c019c9e4607b692c5d94a18a96d58bde
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