Internet Architecture and Innovation

Internet Architecture and Innovation

By: Barbara van Schewick

In the thirty years since its inception, the Internet has experienced remarkable growth. What started in the 1970s as an experimental network connecting research and military networks has become a global network linking more than 1.6 billion users worldwide. The Internet ’ s growth has been fueled by an unprecedented amount of innovation. Over the years, network engineers have developed numerous new physical networking technologies (including Wi-Fi and optical networking technologies) over which the Internet can run. The Internet now connects everything from sensors to supercomputers. A constant stream of new applications lets users do new things, or do them more effi ciently, making the Internet more attractive and useful to diverse users. [download]

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