Meeting Customer Needs for Secure, Mobile, MultiService Networks

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2010 -Four years on  Technologies Impact on
Lifestyles, Business and the Economy
John McHugh VP and Worldwide General Manager
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The lessons we have learnedsince 2005 again

• Technology does not drive adoption
• Networking infrastructure does not change rapidly
• Proprietary architectures limit widespread
  deployment

• Rapid advances in one technology mandate
  advances in others

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2010 the year in review

• The Urban Dictionary surpassed the Oxford English
  Dictionary

• Telecommuting grade schools
• Wages skyrocket in India China
• Airbus announces development of super airliner
  large enough for all of Luxembourg to travel
  together

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Technology trends in 2010

• Voice over IP continues to over take TDM
  handsets
• Trusted Computing Group announces another unified
  access protocol
• Cisco announces Self Aware Defensive (SAD)
  networks
• 10Gigabit/sec copper to the desktop

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2010 Mobility comes of age

• WiFi account billing is supported in most public
  hot spots
• Roaming is transparent, robust and widely
  available
• Performance is pervasive, quality is solid
• New mobile applications are available

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2010 New capabilities

• Follow Me introduces transparent storage
  mirroring over WiFi for PDAs and portables
• Large mail files are regularly approaching 500
  Megabytes
• Video calling from PDAs and portables is widely
  available, yet largely unused

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2010 and still waiting

• Unified secure access protocol (PC, cellular,
  WiFi, application) remain unique
• Voice methodically converts to IP
• Storage begins to convert to IP in earnest

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Things we didnt see coming

• Every 8 10 years, industry leadership changes
• Innovation, not commoditization, continues to
  drive communications
• Gigabit/sec for the last mile continues to be
  sufficient

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The next 5 years

• Technology continues to be the servant to
  information
• Infrastructure cycles remain a constant
• Applications must move in unison with security

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