January 2014
| Business World Magazine | 161
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
separate video network,” he
says. “Now all of those things
converge onto one common
platform, so you may have a
