OLIVER C. IBE, ScD, is Director of Network Architecture at Spike Broadband Systems, a fixed broadband wireless company. He has been a research staff member at IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center, Digital Equipment Corporation, and GTE Labs; a network architect at Cabletron Systems and Xyplex Networks; and director of network architecture at Adaptive Broadband Corporation. Dr. Ibe has taught at Georgia Tech and was a visiting scientist at MIT. He was the managing editor of Computer Networks and ISDN Systems and is a senior member of IEEE.