Terrestrial Internet - Tommorrow
Tomorrow's terrestrial Internet will become rapidly 'untethered' as user applications become mobile and connect to the
fiber backbone via wireless technologies. 'Mixed Environments' are characterized by:
Satellites, wireless/untethered
cable/copper upgrades
Edge market 'plug-ins' to fiber backbone may introduce:
- Significant delay & errors
- Power/bandwidth constraints
- Disjoint connectivity
- Corruption as source of loss
- Asymmetric channels