1. The world’s networking company SM © 2005 AT&T, All Rights Reserved. Hossein Eslambolchi, PhD. President -- Global Networking Technology Services & AT&T Labs AT&T CTO & CIO AT&T Fellow Hossein Eslambolchi, PhD. President -- Global Networking Technology Services & AT&T Labs AT&T CTO & CIO AT&T Fellow Technology Trends

2. © 2005 AT&T, All Rights Reserved. 2 1.IP Will Eat Everything! – Next Generation Internet 3.Convergence of Communications & Applications Will Be A Reality – Network Will Be The Computer 4.Wireless Internet Will Be Big – Driving Mobility 5.Sensor Networks Will Be Everywhere 6.e-Collaboration Will Dominate The Workplace – next generation speech recognition 7.Broadband Will Be Common – Death of Locality 2.Security Is Critical 8.Wireless & Wired Lines Will Converge – Accelerating Virtualization 10.Home LANs Will Proliferate – Ethernet Will Be Everywhere 9.Knowledge Mining Will Transform the Way We Do Business Top Ten Technology Trends

3. © 2005 AT&T, All Rights Reserved. 3 2005 2020 IPDevices WirelessContent Intelligent optical chip Nano computers Wearable network Private on-demand reconfigurable networks Mesh sensory networks Fuel cells proliferate Self-healing networks 3-D printing Cognitive radio Speech-to-speech translation 100 Gbyte mobile storage Composite applications Flexible display Application-aware network Wireless VoIP Biometrics Mobile video Location-aware services Over-the-air programming Seamless mobility Video search Perpendicular storage Interactive video Semantic web Storage virtualization Grid networks 2010 2015 2010 What’s To Come Holographic storage Tele-immersion Speech Dialing Virtual Reality Communications Next Generation Internet 1 Tbyte mobile storage Quantum Computing IP Mobility Dominant RFID Pallets RFID Items Cloaking Infobots Emergence of Physical & Sensory Internet