The Power of Networks

"Now we're seeing the minutes of voice usage decline and the usage of data - whether it's gigabits, megabits, however you want to measure it - accelerating tremendously, exponentially. And so the question becomes, how does the user and the carrier pay for this huge investment they have in their network?"

Denny Strigl, former CEO, Verizon Wireless

"Networks have played a powerful connective role in human societies since the dawn of agriculture. Brinton and Chiang document and analyze this phenomenon--and reinforce our appreciation of it."

Vinton Cerf, Father of the Internet

"I saw this as a research experiment when we started...and then suddenly there were workstations around, and by the early 80s, personal computers started to appear...and today what do you have? Probably 3 billion devices on the net and the possibility of 20 or 100 billion with the Internet of Things."

Robert Kahn, Father of the Internet

"The Power of Networks is a wonderfully accessible account of the networking concepts that shape our technology and our society. With remarkable clarity, Brinton and Chiang reveal how the theory of networks illuminates the many connected aspects of our lives."

John MacCormick, author of Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future: The Ingenious Ideas That Drive Today's Computers

"This insightful, readable book shows how the Internet of Things is being transformed, starting with connectivity. Whether you are a technology consumer or work in industry, this is the book for you."

Jeff G. Fedders, Chief Strategist, Intel Corporation, and President, OpenFog Consortium

"This book is a manual for citizenship in the twenty-first century, a world where networks help us find our place by sharing information about who we are, and about what we would like to do."

Robert Calderbank, Duke University; Director, Information Initiative at Duke

"As humans, we are 'networked' by nature. Our bodies are networked from head to toe by the most sophisticated network that exists, and the value of networking was even understood by our ancestors as they began to network in order to hunt more efficiently. The Power of Networks explains how six basic networking principles connect our lives almost as an extension of our primordial instincts--but in more advanced ways than our ancestors could have imagined. It is an absolutely intriguing book."

Helder Antunes, Senior Director, Cisco's Corporate Strategic Innovations Group, and Chairman, OpenFog Consortium

"Those are probably the most important decisions that [we made around 1974 in architecting the TCP/IP protocols]: release it publicly and remove any barriers there would be to adoption. We decided not to impose any intellectual property constraints on the use of the design. We published all of the documents freely."

Vinton Cerf, Father of the Internet