Broadband communications grow closer
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US telephone companies will soon be making text and voice messaging and information gateways available to consumers. Broadband desktop workstations were used to test multimedia messaging, information retrieval, broadband services, terminals and applications during 1988. High-quality voice conferencing became available. The importance of communication software will increase with the use of open, intelligent networks as distributed computer systems. Optical fiber became economically attractive due to better installation methods and improved lightwave technologies. Higher quality was achieved in moving video transmission. Synchronous optical network standard (Sonet) is emerging as the international standard for optical networks interfacing, and the adoption of asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) with its flexible multiplexing capabilities at almost every transmission rate seems likely.
Publication Name: IEEE Spectrum
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0018-9235
Year: 1989
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Data communications, telecommunications converge
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Data communications and telecommunications continued their convergence in 1990 as a result of a combination of applications push and technology pull. Increased use of high-performance workstations and distributed processing systems increases demand for packet networks with enhanced bit rate and response time; the emergence of multimedia applications and other advanced applications requires that workstations meet the bit-rate/delay requirements of real-time as well as non-real-time data traffic. The increasing emphasis on packet-switching technology over circuit switching offers advantages in such areas as resource sharing, service integration, variable-bit-rate (VBR) service flexibility, burst traffic support, multipoint-to-multipoint operation and lower switching cost per subscriber. Also discussed is the increased interest in wireless networks in 1990.
Publication Name: IEEE Spectrum
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0018-9235
Year: 1991
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Telecommunications in the coming decades
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Intelligent, broadband, lightwave networks are being developed. Such networks will integrate communications capabilities, merging or complementing office-information systems, consumer electronics, and other existing communications equipment and networks. These trends move toward something that might be described as 'universal communications' - communications between people, wherever they might be, at any time, and in any medium or combination of media; cultural, entertainment, educational, or business-related materials will be delivered to the home or to the office, on demand.
Publication Name: IEEE Spectrum
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0018-9235
Year: 1987
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