Metcalfe's Law¶
Metcalfe, R. M. (1995). Metcalfe's Law: A Network Becomes More Valuable as It Reaches More Users. InfoWorld.
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Primes¶
- Standardization
- Without a standard, \(n\) independently-produced things that must interwork require, in the worst case, \(O(n^2)\) pairwise adapters — every producer must accommodate every other's idiosyncratic format.
This sourceStates that the value of a shared network/standard scales with adoption (as N^2), so a single shared specification replaces O(n^2) pairwise adapters with O(n) conformance.
- Without a standard, \(n\) independently-produced things that must interwork require, in the worst case, \(O(n^2)\) pairwise adapters — every producer must accommodate every other's idiosyncratic format.
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