Networks, History and Bandwidth

Slides: PDF

Handout: PDF

Handout: PDF

Required Reading:

  • Tim Berners-Lee. "Long Live the Web," Scientific American, December 2010, vol. 303, number 6. Scientific American
  • Barbara Kantrowitz. The Birth of the Internet, Newsweek, August 8, 1994, vol. 124, Is. 6, pg. 56. Newsweek (search CU Library)
  • Uncle Sam, Ma Bell and Her Babies: A Timeline. (Handout)
  • David D. Clark. High-Speed Data Races home, Scientific American, October 1999, pp. 94-115. This article can be found through Scientific American

    • References:

  • Katherine Bouraz. "Nobel for Revolutionary Optical Technologies," Technology Review, Oct. 6, 2009. Technology Review
  • Ben Worthen. "Cisco Hedges Bet on Video Delivery," The Wall Street Journal, March 16, 2012. The Wall Street Journal
  • Steve Lohr. "Fastest New Service in U.S. Coming to Chattanooga," The New York Times, Sept. 12, 2010. The New York Times
  • Jon Fine. "Why Not Just Turn All-Cable?" Businessweek, June 1, 2009. Businessweek
  • John Markoff. "Scientists Strive to Map the Shape Shifting Net," The New York Times, March 1, 2010. The New York Times
  • Virginia Heffernan. "ReWired," The New York Times Magazine, December 30, 2010, The New York Times
  • "Netflix to Offer Streaming-only subscriptions," Forbes.com, November 22, 2010. Forbes
  • Steven Johnson. "Rethinking a Gospel of the Web," The New York Times, April 9, 2010. The New York Times
  • Susan Crawford. "An Internet for Everybody," The New York Times, April 11, 2010. The New York Times
  • Andrew Myers. "A father knows best: Vint Cerf re-thinks the Internet in Stanford talk," Stanford University News, February 11, 2011. Stanford News
  • Bobbie Johnson. "The Web is Reborn," MIT Technology Review, December 2010. Technology Review
  • Gryan Gruley and Albert Karr. Telecom Vote Signals Competitive Free-for-All, The Wall Street Journal, Friday, February 2, 1996, p. B1. (This article can be found through the Johnson School Library Database Description for Factiva) CU Library
  • Wolfgang Gruener. "100Gb/s Interent2 completed," tgdaily, October 9, 2007 tgdaily.com
  • Dionne Searcey. "How 2 Guys' Iowa Connection Took Big Telecoms for a Ride," The Wall Street Journal, Oct. 4, 2007. CU Library
  • Anick Jesdanun. "Researchers Break Internet Speed," 4/24/07. MSNBC
  • Anick Jesdanun. "As Internet turns 40, barriers threaten its growth," Forbes.com, 8.30.09. ABC News
  • Randall Stross. "Google Doesn't Like Its Phone Bill," The New York Times, November 1, 2009. The New York Times
  • Jessica E. Vascellaro. "Google Jolts Telecom Rivals, "The Wall Street Journal, February 11, 2010. The Wall Street Journal
  • Ben Worthen. "Cisco Touts Faster Web Router," The Wall Street Journal, March 10, 2010. The Wall Street Journal
  • Ronald Grover, Tom Lowry, Cliff Edwards. "Revenge of the Cable Guys," Bloomberg Businessweek, March 22 & 29, 2010. Businessweek
  • Greg Mahlknecht, Cablemap.info
  • Chris Harrison, September 2010 CHRISHARRISON.net
  • Brian Stelter. "Comcast Fee Ignites Fight Over Videos on Internet," The New York Times, November 30, 2010. The New York Times
  • Nate Anderson. "Comcast: We bent over backwards to help Level 3! (those bastards)," ARS Technica, December 1, 2010. ARS Technica

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