The number of devices transmitting data over cables and the airways is multiplying at an astounding rate. Is there enough bandwidth for all of these transmissions? A chronic problem on the Internet is lack of bandwidth, which causes delays in data transmission and translates to slow response from a Web site. Read about the evolution of Internet bandwidth in the article "Internet Pipe Schemes" by connecting to www.internetworld.com/print/monthly/1996/10/
schemes.html. According to George Gilder, bandwidth will replace computing power as the driving force in twenty-first century technology. You can read about his ideas in a series of articles that were first published in Forbes magazine by visiting www.seas.upenn.edu/
~gaj1/ggindex.html. Indeed, bandwidth is shaping up to be the key computing and communication issue of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. You can read more about bandwidth issues by visiting http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/980309.html. To see some interesting visualizations of weekly Internet traffic and bandwidth usage on academic servers at one institution, visit yggdrassil.meirion-dwyfor.ac.uk/uccuwww/mrtg and then link to Academic server FS 1 or FS 2. For information about bandwidth associated with specific lines, such as ISDN or T1 lines, visit boardwatch.internet.com/isp/summer99/bandwidth.html.