El valor de una red: Diferentes perspectivas y observaciones

Value of a Network: Different Perspectives and Observations by Sumant Kulkarni Many times, a new person joining a network (social or financial) has an impact on the members already part of the network. This kind of impacts contribute to the increase or decrease in the value of the network. These impacts in turn decides the growth or decay of the network. In this paper, we will look into some examples of such networks in current time. We will discuss many different perspectives of the network value and many laws proposed to quantify them. There have been many questions raised on the validity of these laws. hence, we will look into the issue of validity of these laws. At the end, we will discuss the different interpretation of these...

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La ley de Metcalffe y la economía en red

e-business basics - Metcalfe's Law and the Networked Economy One key determinant of the success of networks is the umber of users connected to the network. Originally proposed as a rule of thumb to explain the value of a telecommunications network; Metcalfe's law states that the value of a telecommunications network is proportional to the square of the number of users of the system (n2). First formulated by Robert Metcalfe in regard to Ethernet, Metcalfe's law explains many of the network effects  of communication technologies and networks such as the Internet  and World Wide Web . The law has often been illustrated using the example of fax machines: A single fax...

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El valor de una red: Diferentes perspectivas y observaciones

Value of a Network: Different Perspectives and Observations Posted on February 26, 2013by Sumant Kulkarni Many times, a new person joining a network (social or financial) has an impact on the members already part of the network. This kind of impacts contribute to the increase or decrease in the value of the network. These impacts in turn decides the growth or decay of the network. In this paper, we will look into some examples of such networks in current time. We will discuss many different perspectives of the network value and many laws proposed to quantify them. There have been many questions raised on the validity of these laws. hence, we will look into the issue of validity of these laws. At the end, we will discuss the...

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