Metcalfe's Law after 40 Years of Ethernet

Metcalfe, B. (2013). Metcalfe's Law after 40 Years of Ethernet. Computer, 46(12), 26-31.

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Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

2013

Volume

46

Issue

12

Pages

26-31

DOI

10.1109/mc.2013.374

DOI registrant

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Link

https://doi.org/10.1109/MC.2013.374

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economics_finance

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Primes

• Common-Medium Intermediation
  • The argument is combinatorial: the count of pairwise translations grows as N times N-minus-one over two, while the count of one-to-medium adaptations grows as N.

    This sourceStates the network-value law derived from the N(N−1)/2 possible pairwise connections versus N adopters of a shared standard — the combinatorial basis of the hub collapse and the network effect.

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