In his spare time, Eslambolchi plays soccer for about three hours each Saturday and is completing a book tentatively titled "20-20 Vision" that describes the changes that computing and communications technology will produce by the year 2020. In his view, "IP will eat everything" and high-speed Internet Protocol-based communications will create the "vitual" world touted by the Internet visionaries of the late 1990s. It will be a real-time, interactive world where wall-sized high-definition screens, gigabit-per-second connections into home and offices, and ubiquitous broadband wireless services enable virtual house calls by doctors, widespread distance learning and telecommuting, virtual project teams, automated systems controlled by voice response systems, and more.
"The next 10 to 15 years will see the dawn of the multimedia age that will free people from the constraints of time and place," he says. "It will be a dramatic change."
Subsea cable alternatives can provide a level of comfort for those concerned about disruptions. Realistically, they will continue to play a small, but critical role in the short term.
Maintaining existing network infrastructures often incurs huge technical debt before newer technologies are adopted over time.
Amid ongoing regional uncertainties, telecom infrastructure in the Middle East has expand to include terrestrial low-latency network infrastructure, which offers resilience and agility in navigating political complexities without relying solely on undersea networks.
