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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Pelkey, James L
• Russell, Andrew L
• Robbins, Loring G

Titel

Circuits, packets, and protocols : entrepreneurs and computer communications, 1968-1988

Ist Teil von

• ACM books : 40 (Alle Bände)

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First edition

Ort / Verlag

[New York, New York] : Association for Computing Machinery

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

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• Inhaltsverzeichnis

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Introduction -- Three Themes -- Sources and Methods -- Market-Structures -- Three Market-Structures at the Intersections of Communications and Computing, 1968-1988 -- Why Do These Stories Matter?
• 1 Prelude to Change: Data Communications, 1949-1968 -- 1.1 Overview -- 1.2 AT&T, The Regulated Monopoly -- 1.3 IBM -- 1.4 New Technologies for Computing -- 1.5 Venture Capital and Public Capital Markets -- 1.6 The Early Entrepreneurs of Data Communications -- 1.7 Emergence of the Data Communications Market-Structure -- 1.8 In Perspective
• 2 Onset of Competition: Data Communications, 1968-1972 -- 2.1 Overview -- 2.2 Government and AT&T -- 2.3 IBM and Computing -- 2.4 Early Data Communications Leaders: 1968-1969 -- 2.5 A Swarm of Data Communications Start-ups: 1968-1970 -- 2.6 1970: A Pivotal Year for Codex and ADS -- 2.7 The Creation of the IDCMA -- 2.8 Strategic Partnerships in the Data Communications Market-Structure: 1971-1972 -- 2.9 Data Communications Market-Structure -- 2.10 In Perspective
• 3 Packet Switching and ARPANET: Networking, 1959-1972 -- 3.1 Overview -- 3.2 The Intergalactic Network -- 3.3 ARPANET: The Planning Phase -- 3.4 ARPANET: Design, Implementation, and Administration -- 3.5 Uncertainty and the Emergence of a Dominant Design, 1969-1972 -- 3.6 ARPANET Meets the Public: ICCC Demonstration, 1972 -- 3.7 In Perspective
• 4 Market Order: Data Communications, 1973-1979 -- 4.1 Overview -- 4.2 Regulatory Challenges to IBM and AT&T -- 4.3 Data Communications Market Leaders in the Early 1970s -- 4.4 The Swarm of Data Communications Firms, 1976-1979 -- 4.5 Micom's Breakout Product, 1976-1979 -- 4.6 Market Leaders Are Acquired -- 4.7 The Data Communications Market-Structure: Market Disruption -- 4.8 In Perspective
• 5 Protocol Confusion: Networking, 1972-1979 -- 5.1 Overview -- 5.2 Commercializing ARPANET, 1972-1975 -- 5.3 Packet Radio and Robert Kahn, 1972-1974 -- 5.4 The CYCLADES Network and Louis Pouzin, 1971-1972 -- 5.5 Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), 1973-19765.5 Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), 1973-1976 -- 5.6 A Proliferation of Communication Projects -- 5.7 In Perspective
• 6 Emergence of Local Area Networks: Networking, 1976-1981 -- 6.1 Overview -- 6.2 Early Networking Pioneers -- 6.3 Select Computer Companies Introduce LANs, 1976-1978 -- 6.4 Early LAN Start-ups -- 6.5 Data Communications Companies Respond with the Data PBX -- 6.6 Early LAN Start-ups Struggle, 1980-1981 -- 6.7 The Emergence of the Networking Market-Structure -- 6.8 In Perspective
• 7 The Chaos of Competition: Networking, 1981-1982 -- 7.1 Overview -- 7.2 The Office of the Future, the PBX to CBX, and AT&T -- 7.3 Early LAN Start-ups, 1981 -- 7.4 Emerging LAN Competition, 1981 -- 7.5 The Data Communication Competitors, 1981-1982 -- 7.6 A Second Wave of LAN Competition, 1982 -- 7.7 The Settlement of the AT&T and IBM Antitrust Lawsuits -- 7.8 IBM Antitrust Suit -- 7.9 Ethernet Chips, Boundless Hope and Market Confusion -- 7.10 LAN Market-Structure, 1981-1982 -- 7.11 In Perspective
• 8 The Need for Standards: Networking, 1975-1984 -- 8.1 Overview -- 8.2 IEEE Committee 802: The Battle for LAN Standards -- 8.3 DIX -- 8.4 IEEE Committee 802 and DIX -- 8.5 Networking Strategy at Xerox: 1979-1981 -- 8.6 ISO/OSI (Open Systems Interconnection): 1979-1982 -- 8.7 The LAN and OSI Standards Efforts Meet -- 8.8 The Emergence of a Dominant Design: 1983-1984 -- 8.9 In Perspective
• 9 Market Order: Networking, 1983-1986 -- 9.1 Overview -- 9.2 The Established Powers -- 9.3 The Leading LAN start-ups, 1983-1986 -- 9.4 Other LAN start-ups -- 9.5 The Data Communication Competitors, 1983-1984 -- 9.6 New Data PBX Competitors -- 9.7 LAN and Data Communications Market-Structures, 1985-1986 -- 9.8 In Perspective
• 10 Adaptation of Wide Area Networks: Data Communications, 1979-1986 -- 10.1 Overview -- 10.2 The Revolution of Digital Transmission, 1982-1984 -- 10.3 The T1 Multiplexer -- 10.4 The Beginnings of "Be Your Own Bell" -- 10.5 Data Communications: First Signs of Digital Networks, 1982-1985 -- 10.6 Entrepreneurs: The T1 Start-ups, 1982-1985 -- 10.7 Market Analysis: Samples of Expert Opinions, 1984-1987 -- 10.8 Data Communications: Wide Area Networks, 1985-1988 -- 10.9 In Perspective
• 11 Market Consolidation: Data Communications and Networking, 1986-1988 -- 11.1 Overview -- 11.2 Data Communications: Firms Adapting or Dying? 1987-1988 -- 11.3 Other Data Communications Companies -- 11.4 Networking: Firms Responding to Market Consolidation, 1987-1988 -- 11.5 Other LAN Companies -- 11.6 Summary of the Data Communications Market-Structure -- 11.7 Summary of the Networking Market-Structure -- 11.8 In Perspective
• 12 Government Support for Internetworking, 1983-1988 -- 12.1 Overview -- 12.2 TCP/IP Internet -- 12.3 OSI's Champions in US Federal Agencies -- 12.4 In Perspective
• 13 The Emergence of Internetworking, 1985-1988 -- 13.1 Overview -- 13.2 Interconnecting Local Area Networks -- 13.3 Internetworking: Entrepreneurs and Start-ups, 1985-1988 -- 13.4 Internetworking: Public Demonstrations in 1988 -- 13.5 Internetworking Market-Structure -- 13.6 In Perspective
• 14 Conclusions -- 14.1 Summary of Market-Structures, 1968-1988 -- 14.2 Internetworking, 1988-2020 -- 14.3 Three Themes -- 14.4 Final Thoughts
• Appendix B Bibliography -- Selected Data and Source Material -- Selected References