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Notes market. Many of the current systems, and some of the designs are still very expensive to upgrade.
There are lots of prototype in the research laboratories. In the academic area, algebra, physics,
engineering math and algorithms has many “constants” and “variables”. From “silicon chips”
to the “point charges”, the possibilities and products of the end results in combination with
physical properties of the materials are exceedingly great.
Many of the potentials has yet to be offered and implemented for consumers. When you go to
the Microsoft® Research, for example, you will see lots of things that are going on there.
Microsoft® spends billions of dollars researching technologies that neither has anything to do
with windows, office, nor would you ever think the consumers will need them for anything.

You will observe that if you upgraded or purchased a new business PC with an Operating
System such as Windows 2000, and if you are not a “Power User”, there is probably not enough
reason to upgrade very quickly, in 2003-2004. What we are seeing is transition on how computer
systems will be used in many different ways in the very near future, and that is the promise of
the Digital Convergence Technology.
Digital Convergence would have become widespread before we can seize complete control of
the internet and enjoy its full capabilities. We shall discuss Digital Convergence briefly so that
you can explore, enjoy and profit from the new capabilities offered by the emerging Digital
Convergence Technology.

Figure 7.2: The Convergence of Computing, Digital Communications
Technology, and Digital Media (technologies and content).

Voice Over IP Solutions (VoIP) application meets the challenges of combining the legacy voice
networks and packet networks by allowing both voice and signaling information to be
transported over the packet network. The concept of VoIP is used in Wireless LAN Networks;
and sometimes referred to as wVoIP, VoFi, VoWi-Fi and Wi-Fi VoIP.

A fax-over-Internet protocol (FoIP) application accomplishes this by extracting the fax image
from an analog signal and carrying it as digital data over the packet network. The email fax
system allows you to send and receive faxes using a regular fax number(s) over the internet
using any email account.
An IPTV- provides an integrated environment to deliver broadcast-quality video over the
IP-based communications using high-speed internet broadband networks such as DSL, High-
Speed Internet Cable, and T1, T2 and T3 lines.

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