Interconnecting the Network of Networks

by Eli M. Noam and Professor and Director of Columbia Institute for Tele-Information Eli M Noam

This book describes the transformation of telecommunications from national network monopolies to a new system, the "network of networks," and the glue that holds it together, interconnection. By their very nature, monopoly-owned networks provided a small number of standardized, nationwide services. Over the past two decades, however, new forces in the world economy began to unravel this traditional system. The driving force behind the change was...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262140721
• ISBN13: 9780262140720
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 375 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher