1 5 2004 market and technology trends in telecom lawrence rabiner rutgers university the of california at santa barbara 2 end state integrated networked via ip broadband multimedia data all types pl fr atm text images graphics photos icons audio both speech music video tv grade to hdtv conferencing email meeting notes virtual reality games sporting events meetings searchable browsable documents catalogs out print books historic shared tele collaboration 3 some bandwidth definitions narrowband telephone modem rates up 56 kbps 2g wireless 4 20 wideband dsl cable typically 200 10 mbps 5g 3g 128 802 11b lan 11 fiber oc3 155 oc192 gbps 4g 11a g lans 55 220 key technologies infrastructure access wireline network pstn private line frame relay traffic engineering erlang model for multi fractal operations platforms 4e 5e switches routers hubs optical