The Sustainable Network

The Accidental Answer for a Trouble Planet

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Paperback, 346 blz. | Engels
O'Reilly | 1e druk, 2010
ISBN13: 9780596157036
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Hoofdrubriek : Computer en informatica
O'Reilly 1e druk, 2010 9780596157036
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What technologies do we need to solve the complex environmental, economic, social, and political challenges facing us today? As this thought-provoking book reveals, one tool for enacting change is already at our fingertips: the global network.

Consider the private domains of companies, governments, and institutions along with the public Internet: we have an immense communications network that connects billions of people in ways we never thought possible. In this book, author Sarah Sorensen clearly demonstrates why this network is the best sustainable technology available to help us tackle a wide range of problems.

If each of us represents a node on this network, then it's time we realize the potential we hold. The Sustainable Network is a call to action, urging individuals, governments, markets, and organizations to put the power of this network to good use.

- Discover how the sustainable network connects us all, with examples of how it's already effecting change
- Understand how this network magnifies the impact of even the smallest change and newest idea
- Explore the role that various market and political forces play
- Learn how the network can be improved to better address environmental, economic, and social conditions
- Get practical advice that you or your business can follow now

Specificaties

ISBN13:9780596157036
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:paperback
Aantal pagina's:346
Uitgever:O'Reilly
Druk:1

Over Sarah Sorensen

Sarah Sorensen is the principal of Sorensen Consulting, a sustainability and strategic communications consultancy. She spent eight years at Juniper Networks in a variety of product and corporate marketing roles. During her tenure, she created and managed the Corporate Citizenship and Sustainability strategy and was a founding member of the company's Green Taskforce, which is responsible for driving energy efficiency initiatives within the engineering and product teams. She also managed Juniper's business announcements, crisis communications and public sector outreach, and spent half a decade marketing the company's security technologies. A graduate of UCLA (1996), where she majored in English and was a member of UCLA's Division 1 women's soccer team, she has focused her efforts in branding, marketing, communications, and public relations for both start-ups and Fortune 500 companies. She has developed and written dozens of white papers, byline articles, and presentations on and about the networking and security industries.

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Preface

1. I Am a Node
2. What Is the Network: How Does It Work?
-Linking Things Together
-Protocols
-Just a Few More Terms: Hosts, Routers, Switches, LANs, and WANs
3. Green by Accident
4. What Makes the Network Sustainable?
5. Broadband: What Is It?
6. Can the Internet Hit a Wall?
7. The Mobile Me
8. Take It with You
9. The Network's Green Factor
10. Carbon Footprints
-Watch Your Weight
-A Product's Carbon Footprint
-The Business of Reducing Carbon
11. Net Efficiencies: Maximizing Resources While Minimizing Waste
12. What's So Smart About an Energy Grid?
-What You Can Do
13. Dematerialization
-What You Can Do
14. Detravelization
15. What Is the Network: How Is Telecommuting Enabled?
-IPSec
-MPLS
-SSL
16. Pushing the Boundaries
-Let's Get Specific
-What You Can Do
17. Data Center
-What About the Actual Equipment?
-Basic Consumption Reduction
-General Tips for Facilities
-Tips for Data Centers
18. Energy Efficiency Measurement
19. Doing Good by Doing Right
20. Is Broadband Really That Important?
21. Sustainable Providers
22. Net Neutrality
23. Tearing Down Economic Boundaries
24. Information Is King
25. Evolution
26. Network Time
27. Political Sustainability
28. Rocking the Vote
29. The Right to Network Usage
30. Challenges of the Networked World
31. Network Defenses Depend on How Traffic Is Sent
32. I Am on the Net, Therefore I Am Vulnerable
-The Machines
-The People
-And Sometimes It's Just Good Hacking
33. Antisocial Network Engineering
34. Protect the Net
35. The Last Best Place to Attack: Your Mobile
36. Government's Role in Protecting the Network's Integrity
-How the Network Can Help Efforts
37. 21st-Century Warfare: Cyberattacks
38. Social Sustainability
39. The Health Net
-What You Can Do
40. Not by Accident: Social Networking
41. Our Relationship with the Network
-A Quick Cheat Sheet of Common Terms
-Notes

Index

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