Lectures notes for 2010 - KTH

Lectures notes for 2010 - KTH Lectures notes for 2010 - KTH

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Context of the course “The network called the Internet is the single most important development in the communications industry since the public switched voice network was constructed…” -- John Sidgmore when he was CEO, UUNET Technologies and COO, WorldCom 1 1. http://www.lucent.com/enterprise/sig/exchange/present/slide2.html {this URL no longer functions} Maguire Context of the course 1: 19 of 104 maguire@kth.se 2010.03.21 Internetworking/Internetteknik

Context of the module Communication systems have been both increasing their number of users and increasing the variety of communication systems. Additionally, increasingly communicating entities are not people, but rather things. Number Micro controllers 6 x 10 9 per year http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MM.2002.10015 People 6.7 x 10 9 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population Mobile subscribers ~4 x 10 9 http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/newslog/Worldwide+Mobile+Cellular+Subscribers+To+Reach+4+Billion+Mark+Late+2008.aspx PCs >1 x 10 9 http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=703807 Automobiles 53 x 10 6 produced in 2007 http://oica.net/category/production-statistics/ Commercial vehicles 20 x 10 6 produced in 2007 http://oica.net/category/production-statistics/ Maguire Context of the module 1: 20 of 104 maguire@kth.se 2010.03.21 Internetworking/Internetteknik

Context of the course<br />

“The network called the Internet is the single most important<br />

development in the communications industry since the public<br />

switched voice network was constructed…”<br />

-- John Sidgmore<br />

when he was CEO, UUNET Technologies<br />

and COO, WorldCom 1<br />

1. http://www.lucent.com/enterprise/sig/exchange/present/slide2.html {this URL no longer functions}<br />

Maguire Context of the course 1: 19 of 104<br />

maguire@kth.se <strong>2010</strong>.03.21 Internetworking/Internetteknik

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