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•Raise the bar on expectations
for applications and users
–Some applications can use
Internet backbone speeds
–Provide planning
information
•The network is looking less like
a bottleneck and more like a catalyst/enabler
–Reduce need to colocate data and
cpu
–No longer ship literally truck
or plane loads of data around the world
–Worldwide collaborations of
people working with large amounts of data become increasingly
possible
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