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Top 25 Technology DriversTom Lyon
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 Tom Lyon has the ATM world buzzing. His IP switching has Internet service providers (ISPs) flocking to solve their bandwidth crunch and corporate network managers talking about what high-speed, IP-specific switching can do for their networks and applications. And he has the ATM vendors are worried. Lyon is no stranger to the pros and cons of ATM; he co-authored the ATM Forum's ATM Adaption Layer 5 protocol standard wh
ile at Sun Microsystems. Lyon's mandate is to show the world that IP switching is ready for prime time. n Millennium Forecast: What industry needs most is a paradigm that is actually useful for network management. n Millennium Disturbance: Governments try to regulate and/or tax the Internet. The Internet, of course, will route around this damage, but the inhabitants of the "damaged" locale will be disadvantaged. Car: Lexus ES300
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Top 25 Technology Drivers
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Updated August 26, 1996
