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1999 Consumer Electronics Show READ ALL ABOUT IT! PAGE 3 Satellite Not a Big Player in Cisco’s World One of the most highly regarded executives in the computer industry sees the future of communications as a terrestrial business, with data, voice, and video coming into the home on one wire. Sharing his vision of the future Friday in the show’s opening technology keynote address, Cisco Systems President John Chambers argued one day, sooner than most people think, homes will be networked to other homes, and appliances and electronic devices will be networked within the home. Chambers, which has an interest in cable modem sales as well as its traditional Internet traffic routers and hubs, warned the large audience in the Hilton theater and listening around the country via several television channels that the “Internet revolution” the world is currently experiencing will “happen quicker than most of us realize. The key is picking which opportunities at which point in time.” The Internet will continue to level the playing field between small and large companies, enabling companies to compete by being fast, rather than large and wealthy. While that has already proven true in the computer world, where an online bookstore like Amazon.com has taken on the national retail chain Barnes & Noble, he said, it will also be the case in other industries such as consumer electronics, Chambers argued. SATELLITE TV MARKETSHARES DBS HOMES DirecTv/USSB: 51.6 % Primestar: 26.1 % EchoStar: 22.3 % ALL SATELLITE HOMES DirecTv/USSB: 42.3 % EchoStar: 21.3 % Primestar: 18.6 % C-band: 18.1 % TURN THE PAGE OTHER ISSUES: Thursday, Jan. 7, 1999 Friday, Jan. 8, 1999 Saturday, Jan. 9, 1999   Please direct questions about this site to general.mail@satbiznews.com q 2000 Satellite Business News Inc. All rights reserved.