Metcalfe's law

Life After Television: The cult of the amateur

In the panel discussion Joe Weinman (VP, Strategy & Emerging Services, AT&T) presents his critique of Metcalfe’s law and the panel discusses it.

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Metcalf’s Law and Legacy

The world of networks breaks into two polar paradigms. Most familiar is the Public Switched Telephone Network. From the tiniest transistor flip-flop on a modem chip through labyrinthine layers of rising complexity on up to a 4ESS supercomputer switch linking 107,520 telephone trunk lines (itself consisting of millions of interconnected transistors), the public network is a vast, deterministic web of Read More ›