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The sustainable network : the accidental answer for a troubled planet / Sarah Sorensen.

By: Sorensen, Sarah.
Series: Sustainable living series: Publisher: Sebastopol, Calif. : O'Reilly, c2010Description: xv, 346 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780596157036 (pbk.); 0596157037 (pbk.).Subject(s): Computer networks -- Environonmental aspects | Digital communications -- Environmental aspects | Sustainable developmentDDC classification: 004.6
Contents:
I am a node -- What is the network: how does it work? -- Green by accident -- What makes the network sustainable? -- Broadband: what is it? -- Can the Internet hit a wall? -- Mobile me -- Take it with you -- Network's green factor -- Carbon footprints -- Net efficiencies: maximizing resources while minimizing waste -- What's so smart about a energy grid? -- Dematerialization -- Detravelization -- What is the network: how is telecommuting enabled? -- Pushing the boundaries -- Data center -- Energy efficiency measurement -- Doing good by doing right -- Is broadband really that important? -- Sustainable providers -- Net neutrality -- Tearing down economic boundaries -- Information is king -- Evolution -- Network time -- Political sustainability -- Rocking the vote -- Right to network usage -- Challenges of the networked world -- Network defenses depend on how traffic is sent -- I am on the net, therefore I am vulnerable -- Antisocial network engineering -- Protect the net -- Last best place to attack: your mobile -- Government's role in protecting the network's integrity -- 21st-Century warfare: cyberattacks -- Social sustainability -- Health net -- Not by accident: social networking -- Our relationship with the network.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-336) and index.

I am a node -- What is the network: how does it work? -- Green by accident -- What makes the network sustainable? -- Broadband: what is it? -- Can the Internet hit a wall? -- Mobile me -- Take it with you -- Network's green factor -- Carbon footprints -- Net efficiencies: maximizing resources while minimizing waste -- What's so smart about a energy grid? -- Dematerialization -- Detravelization -- What is the network: how is telecommuting enabled? -- Pushing the boundaries -- Data center -- Energy efficiency measurement -- Doing good by doing right -- Is broadband really that important? -- Sustainable providers -- Net neutrality -- Tearing down economic boundaries -- Information is king -- Evolution -- Network time -- Political sustainability -- Rocking the vote -- Right to network usage -- Challenges of the networked world -- Network defenses depend on how traffic is sent -- I am on the net, therefore I am vulnerable -- Antisocial network engineering -- Protect the net -- Last best place to attack: your mobile -- Government's role in protecting the network's integrity -- 21st-Century warfare: cyberattacks -- Social sustainability -- Health net -- Not by accident: social networking -- Our relationship with the network.