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By the year 2005, many analysts predict the grocery industry will use more communications than the banking industry.
Some of this communications will be conducted on the Internet, but most
will not. Voice grade dial-up data communications continues to migrate
to Internet, frame relay, and other media. Unlike the pre-AT&T breakup
world, no single communications method is likely to dominate. Numerous
communications methods will coexist.
CRISP was designed to be “pipe” independent — capable of using lease lines, dial-up, Internet, or whatever is available. A CRISP-equipped commissary on Andros Island, for example, communicates through the aging Bahamian Telco exchange, AT&T, and a proprietary fiber network managed by Raytheon.
The type of communications conducted over communication mediums is also a mix, and likely to remain so. Pre-configured point-to-point transactions and EDI are a big chunk of the real world. Digitally deliverable products will grow. Many of these transactions are automatically produced by enterprise systems. CRISP was designed to function as a collaborative system in a blended e-commerce world of pre-configured point-to-point transactions, EDI, and basic Internet e-commerce.