Rivier College, CS699 Professional Seminar
Ch. 2: When They’re Everywhere
Vinton G. Cerf
(from Beyond Calculation)
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Internet Predecessors
• Facsimile concepts in the mid 1800s;
• Facsimile interoperability (infrastructure) over 125 years
later;
• Television was demonstrated in the late 1920s;
• Television become marketable in the late 1940s;
• Television really took off with color television in the 1960s;
• Internet was supported by the U.S. Defense Department,
then through the National Science Foundation, department of
Energy, NASA;
• Internet expanded by Telecom and Software industries;
• In 1997, rapid development of Internet-based radio,
television, telephony, new media devices.
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Internet Essentials
• Interoperability;
• Telephone interworking as infrastructure (supporting
facsimile, computer communication via modem, voice);
• Basic IP Layer will be a key element in the system utility;
• Common address space;
• Binding and Mapping from other address spaces;
• 128-bit address space of IP version 6;
• Unified Storage for e-mail, fax messages, telecalls, voice;
• “Horseless Carriage” (cars) and “Internet telephony”.
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Statistics
• World’s Population: 5.8B (1996) vs. 11.5B (2047);
• Internet Penetration Rate similar to TV and Telephony (+
personal and vehicular devices, fiber optics, broadband);
• 3-4 Billion devices (present Telephone has 660M - impact on
all aspects of the global economy and social structure);
• Data rates: maximum for optical fiber (38THz range per fiber);
• End-User Data rates: Gigabit range;
• New Methods to replace TCP/IP;
• Global Networks;
• Packet and Circuit-like Services.
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Sensor Networks
• Sensor Systems have become an integral part of our world;
• Global Positioning Information Systems.
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Media Integration
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Merging in Communication Media through Internet;
Internet will emulate functions of radio, TV, Telephone;
Initiation of phone calls through Internet;
Internet content of the TV broadcasts;
Private discussion groups;
Multicast communications groups (emergency commands);
Consumer Electronics;
Management and Control of individual devices;
Programmable VCR via Internet;
Speaker-independent recognition, translation, understanding.
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Mobile Software & Virtual Worlds
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Mobile Software technologies;
Security systems;
“Smart” devices: interacting with network services;
Tax software;
Multiparty games;
Virtual stores, banks, schools, offices;
Video teleconferences.
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