Technology Review: June 2001
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Building a Better Backbone
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Surging Internet growth has put pressure on telecom networks to keep up. Their most advanced R&D is going toward expanding the capacity of the long-haul cables that cross continent
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Trailing Edge
- Coffee Cam
- A yen for caffeine helped to put the first video camera on the Net.
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Features
- Breaking the Metro Bottleneck
- The information racing across the country in huge fiber-optic pipes hits a snarl under city streets. New optical networking techniques are clearing the way.
- Mobile Web vs. Reality
- Telecommunications companies are spending billions to prepare high-speed mobile wireless networks. But it´s not clear whether the technologies will work...or if we even need them.
- Little Big Screen
- If displays and keyboards don´t get better, increasing wireless bandwidth won´t mean diddly.
- Broadband´s Coming Attractions
- The hype is that broadband will transform entertainment, changing everything from how we watch movies to the video games that we play. The reality doesn´t exactly match up.
- The Commuter Computer
- If your car is your refuge from the wired world, look out—a new field called telematics could soon put e-mail, news and MP3s in the driver´s seat with you.
- "Everyone Is Wrong"
- The inventor of the portable cell phone didn´t carry one until they slimmed down to 100 grams. Then again, he´s a rebel in almost every way.
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Reviews
- Web Behind Walls
- Left unchecked, cable firms will funnel Internet traffic to their own content—and the Web won´t be worldly or wise.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology