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plastic router
Moore's Law and Metcalfe's Law intersect on the Internet. Both
the computers through
which users access the Internet, and the routers that transmit
data within the Internet, are
subject to the price/performance curve described by Moore's Law.
At the same time,
advances in data transmission technology have expanded the capacity
of the Internet's
backbone networks. As the bandwidth available through the network
continues to grow,
Moore's Law states that the price of obtaining a given level of
bandwidth continues to drop,
while Metcalfe's Law dictates that the value of a connection increases
exponentially. The
ratio of the cost of Internet access to the value it provides
plummets over time. And as it
plummets, connectivity and higher-bandwidth connections become
that much more important, The Feedback Loop If the Internet is not like any other established communications
technology, what then is
it? On one level, the Internet is whatever anyone wants it to
be. It is plastic, decentralized,
and constantly evolving network. Any simple concept to describe
the Internet will necessarily
be incomplete and misleading. Such templates are useful, however,
to promote greater
understanding of aspects of the Internet that may not otherwise
be obvious.
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