Mike O'Dell Vice President, ,
Chief Scientist UUNET Technologies
Two years ago, it was high heresy that pure router-only networks could support the level of traffic engineering required to operate very large Internet backbones while maintaining control of both cost and performance. Mike O'Dell proved the naysayers wrong and will again take a heretical approach as he deploys the network architecture that will take UUNET through two orders of magnitude of growth. For O'Dell, the f
uture of the Internet is "creating an infrastructure to support the communications requirements of our pet silicon cockroaches, which have learned to speak to each other a million times faster over the last 20 years and breed much faster than humans. Voice is doomed to become the first $250 billion niche market." n Millennium Forecast: Field deployment of long-haul fiber systems using optical solutions holds the potential to dramatically reduce the limits on the size of deployable fiber bundles, which could provide a quantum leap in fiber-system capacity. n Millennium Disturbance: The telecom infrastructure will grow in accordance with Moore's Law, causing significant pain as some of the existing players prove organizationally incapable of adapting
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Two years ago, it was high heresy that pure router-only networks could support the level of traffic engineering required to operate very large Internet backbones while maintaining control of both cost and performance. Mike O'Dell proved the naysayers wrong and will again take a heretical approach as he deploys the network architecture that will take UUNET through two orders of magnitude of growth. For O'Dell, the f
uture of the Internet is "creating an infrastructure to support the communications requirements of our pet silicon cockroaches, which have learned to speak to each other a million times faster over the last 20 years and breed much faster than humans. Voice is doomed to become the first $250 billion niche market." n Millennium Forecast: Field deployment of long-haul fiber systems using optical solutions holds the potential to dramatically reduce the limits on the size of deployable fiber bundles, which could provide a quantum leap in fiber-system capacity. n Millennium Disturbance: The telecom infrastructure will grow in accordance with Moore's Law, causing significant pain as some of the existing players prove organizationally incapable of adapting
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