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that’s kind of sci-fi, but that’s
what this network enables. It
enables the things we thought
we only science fiction. It al-
lows them to become reality
very quickly.” Another chal-
lenge of modern life, he says,
is being able to serve all lev-
els of customers – from indi-
vidual residents to companies
with far-flung business inter-
ests – and the increasing de-
sire for those who provide the
networks that transport the
complicated documents, im-
ages and media content.
FACING THE
FUTURE
To be sure, it’s not simply
about making phone calls
anymore.
“I used to have a separate
voice network. I used to have
a separate data network, a sep-
arate video network,” he says.
“Now all of those things con-
verge onto one common plat-
form, so you may have a data
communication, but at
