IP: Keynote Speech at IEEE LEOS

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

 I have placed on my home page


http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~farber 


the RealAudio encoded file for the keynote speech at LEOS. It was warmly received. Due to a failure of the RA server at 
Penn at present it will have to be downloaded and then played. It is 4.6 megs. I hope to have it server based soon.


The published abstract follows


Dave




//(Keynote Speaker) 


Predicting the Unpredictable -- The Impact of ALL Optical Networking, 
David Farber, 
The Alfred Fitler Moore Professor of Telecommunication Systems, 
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 


The deployment of all optical networks with all optical switching in the early part of the 21st century will create an 
opportunity to rethink our notions of not only computer networks but the whole computer field. 
  
We all understand what the potentials are for the optical networks in enabling new uses for networks and changing their 
economics even if "killer applications" are still hazy. It is the impact on the rest of the computer environment that 
Prof. Farber will address in his keynote. 
  
How will such networks force fundamental changes in the architecture of computing systems, processors and i/o, and the 
structure of operating systems and network protocols? How will the changes to the underlying technology possibly 
fundamentally change the structure of the computer industry , the telecommunications industry, and Internet service 
providers?