This panel discusses the objectives of the next generation of the Internet and the resulting impact on research and educational community, network equipment manufacturers, and carriers. The new aspects of the network include, along with increased bandwidth, Quality of Service (QoS) parameters such as guranteed throughput, guaranteed bandwidth channels, and small or bounded latency.

Moderator:
John Porter, Vice President, Boston University

Panel:
Scott Bradner, Senior Technical Consultant, Harvard University
Rick Wilder, Senior Engineer, MCI
Tom Downey, Product Marketing Director, Cisco Systems