Word: bandwidths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...these days, not everyone is on the Vice President's bandwidth. His biggest high-tech achievement to date is a program to wire every classroom and library in the country. He has heralded it as "a turning point that [will] transform the shape of America." But right now, the program is under assault from Congress as an out-of-control entitlement engineered by an out-of-control bureaucracy. Which does not do much for Gore's reputation as the architect of reinventing government. Even more ominous is another threat: starting this summer, phone companies that were ordered...
...year 2000. At the same time, access to the outside world from China--once tightly controlled over a narrow pipeline--has quadrupled this year. As late as 1996, most Net traffic to and from China had to flow through a single 56-kilobit circuit in Shanghai, less bandwidth than many U.S. homes enjoy. Now China has a pipeline a hundred times wider, and at&t has just been hired to make it even bigger. Will China really have 4 million citizens online by 2000? "Try 20 million," says Zhang, who has watched the government exceed growth targets in everything from...
...mail is great, but what about spam? All this unsolicited junk is clogging up bandwidth and becoming not only a nuisance, but a security threat to institutions and individuals. It is estimated that 33 percent of all e-mail processed by the world's largest on-line service, America Online, is junk mail...
...acted on the assumption that computing power--the capacity of microprocessors and memory chips--would become nearly free; his company kept churning out more and more lines of complex software to make use of this cheap bounty. The law that will power the next few decades is that bandwidth (the capacity of fiber-optic and other pipelines to carry digital communications) will become nearly free...
...problem is, video signals take up a heck of a lot of bandwidth, or network capacity. If your fast Harvard dorm room connection isn't even fast enough to support full-screen, full-motion videos for multiple users simultaneously, imagine how slow videos must appear to home users on their 28.8 Kb/s modems...