Where is networking heading over the next three to five years? The supply side of the industry has been serving up a range of new concepts such as:

• Services embedded in network infrastructure
• Communications embedded in to applications
• Low cost wide area bandwidth that eliminate distance and time allowing data centers to be restructured and more
• Security and access control being the norm rather then universal access
• Telecommunications service providers being marginalized by voip, etc.

While there is value in the above initiatives, the big question is this; is Moore´s Law about to collide with Metcalfe’s Law bringing new combinations of companies and restructuring the industry? Will the industry continue to be dominated by one company or will we see a major roll-up occur. Will computing and networking firms combine to tightly link networks and application delivery? Nick Lippis provides you a framework for how the industry may progress over the next three to five years with a set of predictions.

Posted 15 November 2006 at 8:06 am under Topic. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.