After massive investments in more fiber optics and capacity, the telecommunications industry is realizing that the problem is not about the bandwidth, it’s about traffic. The underlying problems in the telecom industry today result in part from under-utilization of network resources and the inability to bridge incompatible networks to deliver data when and where customers want it. Network utilization, and with it communication industry revenue, could be increased significantly by perfecting the ability to deliver high-flow interactive services such as video on demand and real-time access to massive corporate data. These are long promised services that the current industry has failed to deliver. This inability today is not due to limited bandwidth, as is often thought, but to system architecture.
Technologies to enable the new Enhanced Communications industry include optimization of bandwidth usage (today at less then 1 percent in average), bridging of incompatible networks, advanced rights management, multi-channel wireless, new security models, and embedded and nano technology, among others.
