Information superhighway

Author

Sudarshan, T.R. ; Seshadri, T.R.

Author_Institution

NBKRIST S.V. Univ., Tirupati, India

Volume

3

fYear

1997

fDate

9-12 Sep 1997

Firstpage

1751

Abstract

This paper highlights the technologically advanced web i.e. Internet. The Internet consists of high speed data lines converted by fast RISC-processor-based packet routers. The access rates vary between 2400 bps and 19 kbps, if connected by a telephone and a modem. Services that are available in the web such as electronic commerce, just in time manufacture, education, health care and electronic malls are in great demand. One much talked about development is multimedia, and cyberspace with ATM is the key to easing the transaction of LAN emulation over an ATM infrastructure. India is gearing itself to be one of the advanced countries to build an information highway with the help of major service providers like VSNL and NIC. Despite the great increase in cheap information, we are caught in an information paradox which is due to the complexity and incompleteness of the existing set of information. The ultimate impact of the information revolution on our society is such that no one will be able to predict the outcome

Keywords

Internet; asynchronous transfer mode; multimedia communication; 2400 bit/s to 19 kbit/s; ATM; India; Internet; LAN emulation; NIC; RISC-processor-based packet routers; VSNL; WWW; World Wide Web; access rates; cheap information; complexity; cyberspace; education; electronic commerce; electronic malls; health care; high speed data lines; information revolution; information superhighway; just in time manufacture; major service providers; multimedia; Cable TV; Computer networks; Electronic commerce; IP networks; Internet telephony; Modems; Motion pictures; Reduced instruction set computing; Road transportation; Video compression;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information, Communications and Signal Processing, 1997. ICICS., Proceedings of 1997 International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3676-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICICS.1997.652296

Filename

652296