IP: NEXT GENERATION INTERNET ON THE WAY: Edupage, June 1, 2001

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> At the 2001 BusinessWeek Telecommunications Summit, IBM director
> of Internet technology and strategy Mike Nelson discussed the
> future of the Next Generation Internet. Nelson's team estimated
> that the amount of data on the Web will increase by a factor of
> one million by 2010 and will be measured in zettabytes instead
> of the current petabytes metric. New technologies must be
> developed in order to sort and secure that information, and Nelson
> said that his group is trying to devise a Next Generation Internet
> prototype in order to comprehend the faster data rates that will
> come with pervasive wireless connections. Other trends driving
> IBM's Next Generation Internet efforts include widespread,
> affordable broadband within the next three to five years, and
> the proliferation of Linux open source platform and software to
> enable system interoperability. "We estimate that in three years,
> half the people using the Internet will not be using a PC. They'll
> be using it in kiosks, televisions, refrigerators, cell phones, and
> who knows what else," Nelson said.
> (Dallas Morning News Online, 31 May 2001)



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