The Network Today

Since the deployment of ARPANET, networking has changed how we live our day-to-day lives. The tremendous reliance on networks as a method to enhance our quality of living has created a multibillion-dollar industry that has experienced near-exponential growth over almost three decades. From a conglomeration of semiconductor and telecommunication (telco) services to application-specific services such as optical and wireless networking, the telco industry has evolved dramatically over this time, adding newer products to the generic telco portfolio and emerging as a huge industry spread over large geographic areas and facilitating the transfer of both small and large amounts of information. This transfer of information between end ...

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