1.  Discuss the PSTN and the digital divide (rural telecommunications)

2.  What is the current thinking on state-of-the-art for customer premises wiring?

3.  What is the future for SONET? Are there competing standards?

4.  Will the next-generation networrk applications use the PSTN for anything?

5.  What is the future of modems? Are cable modems the last in the evolution of this device?

6.  Discuss the latest research in coding and why Unicode will most likely not survive.

7.  Discuss OSI has a dynamic model. Is it changing? What is its future?