Network Infrastructure: The Internet Backbone

Joan Ricart-Costa, Brian Subirana and Josep Valor-Sabatier

Chapter Chapter 4 in Sources of Information Value, 2004, pp 63-77 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Bandwidth is an expression of the speed at which digitized data can travel over a conductor such as a telephone wire (relatively slow) or a fibre optic cable (relatively fast). We shall define ‘bandwidth’ simply as the maximum amount of data in megabits per second (mbps) that can be sent from computer A to computer B, thereby expressing the capacity of a networked connection. In essence, the more bandwidth there is, the more data that can travel along that connection within a certain period of time. As Table 4.1 shows, some applications require very little bandwidth, others quite a lot.

Keywords: Switching Cost; Network Infrastructure; Server Market; Virtual Private Network; Packet Switching (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230512948_4

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