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Hossein Eslambolchi, PhD.President -- Global Networking Technology Services & AT&T Labs

AT&T CTO & CIO

AT&T Fellow

Hossein Eslambolchi, PhD.President -- Global Networking Technology Services & AT&T Labs

AT&T CTO & CIO

AT&T Fellow

Technology TrendsTechnology Trends

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1. IP Will Eat Everything! – Next Generation Internet

3. Convergence of Communications & Applications Will Be A Reality – Network Will Be The Computer

4. Wireless Internet Will Be Big – Driving Mobility

5. Sensor Networks Will Be Everywhere

6. e-Collaboration Will Dominate The Workplace – next generation speech recognition

7. Broadband Will Be Common – Death of Locality

2. Security Is Critical

8. Wireless & Wired Lines Will Converge – Accelerating Virtualization

10. Home LANs Will Proliferate – Ethernet Will Be Everywhere

9. Knowledge Mining Will Transform the Way We Do Business

Top Ten Technology TrendsTop Ten Technology Trends

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2005

2005

2005

2005

2020

IP Devices

Wireless Content

Intelligent optical chip

Nano computers

Wearable network

Private on-demand reconfigurable

networks

Mesh sensory networks

Fuel cellsproliferate

Self-healingnetworks

3-D printing

Cognitive radio

Speech-to-speech translation

100 Gbyte mobile storage

Composite applications

Flexible display

Application-aware network

Wireless VoIP

Biometrics

Mobilevideo

Location-aware services

Over-the-air programming

Seamless mobility

Video search

Perpendicularstorage

Interactive video

Semanticweb

Storage virtualization

Gridnetworks

2010

20102010 2015 2015

2015

2015

2010

What’s To ComeWhat’s To Come

Holographic storage

Tele-immersionSpeech Dialing

Virtual Reality Communications

Next Generation Internet

1 Tbyte mobile storage

Quantum Computing

IP Mobility Dominant

RFIDPallets

RFIDItems

Cloaking

Infobots

Emergence of Physical &

Sensory Internet