Metcalfe's law after 40 years of ethernet

Computer

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 26-31

  Metcalfe, Bob ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Dunbar's number; Ethernet; Facebook; Metcalfe's law; Moore's law; netoid; Network effect; Odlyzko's law; Reed's law; Sarnoff's law; sigmoid

Indexed keywords

DUNBAR'S NUMBER; FACEBOOK; METCALFE'S LAW; MOORE'S LAW; NETOID; NETWORK EFFECTS; ODLYZKO'S LAW; REED'S LAW; SARNOFF'S LAW; SIGMOID;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

ETHERNET;

EID: 84891532302     PISSN: 00189162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MC.2013.374     Document Type: Article

References (6)

1. G. Gilder, Microcosm: The Quantum Revolution in Economics and Technology, Touchstone, 1989.
2. G. Gilder, Telecosm: The World after Bandwidth Abundance, Touchstone, 2000.
3. B. Metcalfe, "There Oughta Be a Law," The New York Times, 15 July 1996.
4. D.P. Reed, "That Sneaky Exponential-Beyond Metcalfe's Law to the Power of Community Building," 1999; www.reed.com/dpr/locus/gfn/reedslaw. html.
5. B. Briscoe, A. Odlyzko, and B. Tilly, "Metcalfe's Law Is Wrong," IEEE Spectrum, 1 July 2006; http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/ networks/metcalfes-law-is-wrong.
6. "Primates on Facebook," The Economist, 26 Feb. 2009; www.economist.com/node/13176775.