on telecom operators world-wide have become
aware of its great potential and they study it and
investigate ways and means for its exploitation
on broad fronts.
Visions
Computer- and networking development has led
to new applications. Computers can exploit
Internet-technology for co-operation. We can
expect Internet-technology to be employed for
further improved telecommunications. That will
no doubt be the case for some telephone traffic,
distribution of text, sound and images, including
moving pictures, and many new applications and
innovations.
Transmission will make use of traditional chan-
nels as well as others that we have only thought
of in special contexts. That comprises TV cable,
local radio nets in many forms and sizes, and
local area cable nets of various types including
optical fibres.In short: Internet-technology is capable of meet-
ing many different requirements for traffic types
and can exploit many different information-car-
rying media. The comprehensive development
that proposed, analysed and exercised so many
possibilities and tested them so thoroughly
throughout the whole decade of the 1970s laid
the foundation for the rapid growth of applica-
tions and its future importance.