"A lot of what has happened in the last year and a half," he pointsout, "has concentrated on services for consumers - MP3s andvideo-on-demand on the Net. But there is also tremendous value inbringing those same types of services to an enterprise, whether it beto have enterprise-wide interactive training sessions or one-to-manyvideo connectivity to off-lay travel expenses."

Video conferencing, or at least multimedia conferencing - voice plusapplication-sharing - should also get a new lease on life from IPconvergence, Fox says.

"We should be trying it more," she argues. "People are tired oftraveling. Nine-eleven should be forcing people to look at this, giventhat [increased airport security] is adding two hours to every tripand a lot of personal grief."

Going Wireless

Our experts agree that CIOs should be investigating wireless datanetworking.