A media-rich experience and real-time collaboration delivered over a secure network — that’s what the Internet of the next decade will be
With degrees from IIT Delhi and Cornell, Warrior spent 23 years of her career at Motorola where she was chief technology officer (CTO). She led a global team of 26,000 engineers and directed Motorola Labs with an annual R&D budget of $3.7 billion. In 2007, she moved to Cisco as its CTO where she is responsible for technological innovation and strategy. When Barack Obama took over as president of the USA, she was among the two candidates considered by the administration to take over as federal CTO.
Over the last decade we built a very efficient means to transport information. We removed all the “bumps” in each lane to speed up data flow, and then added multiple lanes to move ever-larger volumes of traffic. Think about what happens when a multi-lane highway connects two isolated townships: Hospitals, schools, sports stadiums, power grids and communities start cropping up along the way, don’t they? Well similarly, since connectivity was provided by the Internet, entire industries (e.g. healthcare, education, energy, entertainment) have begun looking for ways to leverage the Internet to transform and grow their businesses. This opens up significant opportunities for a wide variety of players to innovate by delivering systems, solutions, architectures and services that add value. The winners in the future will be those that build the Next Internet.
(This story appears in the 04 June, 2010 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)