{"id":3007,"date":"2000-10-29T15:32:44","date_gmt":"2000-10-29T21:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smperformance.wordpress.com\/2013\/07\/28\/stratvantage-consulting-llc-stratvantage-news-summary-092900\/"},"modified":"2000-10-29T15:32:44","modified_gmt":"2000-10-29T21:32:44","slug":"stratvantage-consulting-llc-stratvantage-news-summary-092900","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stratvantage.com\/index.php\/2000\/10\/29\/stratvantage-consulting-llc-stratvantage-news-summary-092900\/","title":{"rendered":"StratVantage Consulting, LLC — StratVantage News Summary 09\/29\/00"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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StratVantage Consulting, LLC — StratVantage News Summary 09\/29\/00<\/h1>\n

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F<\/strong>aster, Better, Cheaper Bandwidth . .<\/strong> .<\/h1>\n

.<\/strong> . . is just around the corner. According to Upside, "By the end of this year, Nortel Networks Corp.<\/strong> (NT) plans to begin selling a system that will send a staggering 1.<\/strong>6 trillion bits per second through a single fiber.<\/strong> That’s equivalent to more than 20 million simultaneous phone calls.<\/strong>" What will the world look like when bandwidth cost approaches zero?<\/strong> We may find out a good deal sooner than we thought.<\/strong><\/p>\n

At the Delphi Corporate Portals conference this week, Wired editor Kevin Kelly related a story of an early 20th century Sears product: the home motor.<\/strong> This portable but expensive device could power all manner of labor saving devices.<\/strong> Kelly asserted that people of that time couldn’t imagine what was to come: motors disappeared into the fabric of the home support systems. It’s certainly true.<\/strong> Rather than a single, expensive, valuable resource that needs to be conserved and maximized, domestic motors today are in everything and we never think about them.<\/strong> Try taking an inventory of all the motors in your house.<\/strong> Did you remember to count any mechanical clocks?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kelly’s point is that computing will disappear into the background just as so many other technologies have.<\/strong> I believe communications bandwidth will go the same way.<\/strong> Remember when you hesitated to make a long distance call because it was so expensive?<\/strong> (If you don’t, you were probably born later than the 70s.<\/strong>) Now you can call for free on your wireless phone or over the Internet.<\/strong> Kelly described the cost curve that modern technology has created: one that approaches zero.<\/strong> A correlary to his thinking is my assertion that, "On the Internet, everything devolves to free.<\/strong>" (See my presentation from the conference for more on that subject, here.<\/strong> <\/a>Email me if you want the PowerPoint file.<\/strong><\/p>\n

So, what will you <\/strong>do with unlimited bandwidth?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Briefly Noted<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n