There is no longer any ambiguity about the killer application: It's personalized, on-demand, multifaceted, symmetrical, ever higher definition, bandwidth-gobbling video. And it's not just one application. A suite of applications that rely on video is here and on the near horizon. With cost-effective high-definition, super high-definition, and eventually 3D video enabled by a continuing exponential decline in storage and processing costs, we are clearly headed toward greater than 1-Gbit/sec data rates dedicated to each subscriber.
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