Dialup is dead

A new network architecture known as the Internet Protocol Dialtone (IP Dialtone) offers Internet users with more benefits than dialup infrastructures. IP Dialtone utilizes a Digital Subscriber Line, cable modem, wireless and innovative access technologies which do not require dialup. The emergence of this new technology is expected to usher in a wide array of services for priority bandwidth, rate shaping, interactivity, reliability and privacy.
IP is the dominant internetworking protocol. It's the foundation of the Internet, and, according to Forrester Research, it will account for more than half of the LAN traffic on 82 [...]