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	Metcalfe's law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Metcalfe's law states that the value of a network equals approximately the square of the number of users of the system (n
		The law is often illustrated with the example of fax machines: A single fax machine is useless, but the value of every fax machine increases with the total number of fax machines in the network, because the total number of people with whom you may send and receive documents increases.
		Metcalfe's Law in Reverse, applying Metcalfe's law to form an argument in favour of large, unified networks.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Metcalfes_Law (449 words)

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		METCALF, WILLARD LEROY (1858), American artist, was born at Lowell, Massachusetts, on the 1st of July 1858.
		METCALFE, CHARLES THEOPHILUS METCALFE, BARON (17851846), Indian and colonial administrator, was born at Calcutta on the 30th of January 1785; he.was the second son of Thomas Theophilus Metcalfe, then a major in the Bengal army, who afterwards became a director of the East India Company, and was created a baronet in 1802.
		A strong upporter of the optimates and an enemy of Pompey, he strenuously opposed the agrarian law brought forward by the tribune Lucius Flavius, to provide for Pompey's veterans, and stood firm even though imprisoned; the law had to be given up.
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		Little's law (Little's law: more facts about this subject) - The average number of customers in a stable system (over some time interval) is equal to their average arrival rate, multiplied by their average time in the system.
		Poisson's law of large numbers (Poisson's law of large numbers: more facts about this subject) - For independent random variables with a common distribution, the average value for a sample tends to the mean as sample size increases.
		Reed's law (Reed's law: reeds law is the assertion of david p....
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		Aside from Murphy's Law, the best known in the computer industry is Moore's law--named after Intel cofounder Gordon Moore--which posits that new chips have roughly twice the capacity of their predecessors and are released within a year and half or two years of each other, thus the power of the chip rises exponentially over time.
		Metcalfe is the author of a law that elegantly explains the exponential power of networked computers.
		Basically, Metcalfe's Law states that the value of a network is "n" squared, with "n" being the number of nodes on the network.
	www.forbes.com /1998/06/15/feat.html (1239 words)

	Metcalfes Useful Equation
		Moore's Law goes a long way toward explaining why the digital age is increasingly populated by killer apps.
		The diagram of Metcalfe's Law in Figure 1.2 shows a magical point of inflection, the knee of the curve, at which a technology reaches critical mass.
		The most dramatic demonstration of Metcalfe's Law during the digital age has been the explosion in the early 1990s of the Internet, a network of computers and a set of standards that makes it easy for computers to share data.
	www.killer-apps.com /contents/booktour/metcalfes_useful_equation.htm (1114 words)

	unmediated: Metcalfe's Law broken
		A really fascinating result from Andrew Odlyzko and Benjamin Tilly, per CNet: "The fundamental fallacy underlying Metcalfe's (Law) is in the assumption that all connections or all groups are equally valuable," the researchers report.
		Metcalfe's Law predicts a 100 percent increase in value by merging the networks.
		"The fundamental fallacy underlying Metcalfe's (Law) is in the assumption that all connections or all groups are equally valuable," the researchers report.
	www.unmediated.org /archives/2005/04/metcalfes_law_b.php (872 words)

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		"The fundamental fallacy underlying Metcalfe's (Law) is in the assumption that all connections or all groups are equally valuable," assert the researchers, who work in the university's Digital Technology Center.
		Odlyzko and Tilly reason in their paper that the validity of Metcalfe's Law would have been proven by a significant acceleration of network mergers, given the enormous economic incentives the law promised; but in practice, such interconnection is painfully slow.
		The researchers suggest a "network effect law" stating that the value of a network with n members is n times the logarithm of n rather than n squared.
	www.cs.mun.ca /~wlodek/technews/technews-2005/tn-metcalfe-law-05-03-767.html (204 words)

	The Stalwart: Metcalfe's Law, Reed's Law Revisited: Questioning new Valuation Models
		Metcalfe's Law states that the value of a network is roughly equivalent to the square of its nodes.
		By the way, Reed's Law, which I don't quite understand is even more bold, because instead of a network being valued as n^2, where n is the number of users (nodes), n becomes the exponent, valuing the network as 2^n.
		Metcalfe's Law came from Bob Metcalfe, a founder of networking equipment supplier 3Com and coinventor of the now-ubiquitous Ethernet networking standard.
	www.thestalwart.com /the_stalwart/2005/09/metcalfes_law_r.html (1559 words)

	CNET interviews Bob Metcalfe - Topic Ars OpenForum
		CNET has posted an interview with Bob Metcalfe, co-inventor of Ethernet and formulator of Metcalfe's Law.
		Cisco, one of the companies Metcalf lumps in to the categories at odds with his own was actually pushing a model for the cable industry much more like his Ethernet Model.
		Metcalfe's notion of the "Ethernet Business Model" is an intriguing way to view it, but I think I understand the idea.
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	Metcalfe's Law
		Coined by Robert Metcalfe, the inventor of Ethernet, Metcalfe's Law states that the value of a network grows by the square of the size of the network.
		The idea behind this law is that a network's value is increased as the size of the network increases; this law is often referred to when talking about the Internet's value.
		This law is also considered applicable to more than just the Internet or a computer network.
	www.computerhope.com /jargon/m/metcalfe.htm (161 words)

	Metcalfe's Law in Reverse (Alertbox)
		Because of Metcalfe's Law, the largest network always wins over smaller networks, even if the smaller network has some larger initial value due to some special-purpose feature or benefit.
		Metcalfe's Law provides much of the explanation of the success of the Web relative to earlier hypertext systems like HyperCard, Intermedia, and NoteCards.
		The law is usually quoted in terms of growth of the network, but we can run Metcalfe's Law in Reverse and use it to characterize the effect of cutting a network into pieces:
	www.useit.com /alertbox/990725.html (1120 words)

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		Metcalfe's law states that the value of a communication system grows as approximately the square of the number of users of the system (N²).
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	Ubiquitous Networking: Bridging the Digital Divide
		The Metcalfes' Law says that the value of a communication network increases exponentially with an arithmetic increase in the number of nodes.
		The answer is well yes and no. The Internet is but the most visible and most talked-about part of a whole gamut of networks we today interact with.
		This is the gist of the Metcalfe's Law.
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	Metcalfes law revisted - DaveChaffey.com
		Metcalfe’s law first was stated by Bob Metcalfe, who was co-founder and former chief executive of networking company 3Com.
		Metcalfe was reputed to have said in presentations made for the company:
		More recently it has been suggested that Metcalfe's law is an overestimate of the value of the network according to these two articles:
	www.davechaffey.com /E-business/C3-Infrastructure/Metcalfes-law (170 words)

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	Bordering Insanity: December 2005
		LLover: Well, as per Metcalfes law, Ls utility is lower.
		Firstly, Metcalfe's law is a rule of thumb and not a law (somewhat like Moore's Law).
		Anon, I agree that Metcalfe's "Law" is more an empirical rule than a Law.
	ambarthejovian.blogspot.com /2005_12_01_ambarthejovian_archive.html (2190 words)

	Gonzo Engaged: March 03, 2002
		Metcalfes Law* can be stated as: "The value of a network is proportional to the number of conections times the value per connection.
		P.S. Metcalfe's Law also offers some areas of consideration for rebutting the very pertinent objections to GM that have been raised on this blog previously.
		Anyway, here in NZ the law says that the number of employees of SOE's in each pay bracket (in 10K increments) has to be made public.
	gonzoengaged.blogspot.com /2002_03_03_gonzoengaged_archive.html (4179 words)

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		Metcalfe's Law states that the usefulness, or utility, of a network equals the square of the number of users.
		But in the predigital age, it could take many years for Metcalfe's Law to bear fruit.
		Moore's Law and Metcalfe's Law are in play.
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	Beyond Porter - A Critique of the Critique of Porter
		Shapiro and Varian explain in their book „Information Rules“ that the economical laws that apply to products and services cannot be simply transferred to the new category information good.
		Every strategy should base on a careful analysis of all internal and external factors and on their potential future development.
		Moreover, the latest shift from dot-com-hype to dot-com-crashes has given evidence that the basic laws of economics are viable for the new economy or information economy too.
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	Joe Lamantia.com
		I think this is already the case, unless the people you're talking to earn their bread and butter by doing something related to enterprise software - but there's interesting ground here that I'd like to explore for a bit.
		On the 37signals site there were some good comments to Dave's posting - from developers, entrepreneurs, and quite a few other perspectives - but no one made the connection to Conway's Law, from Melvin Conway's "How Do Committees Invent?", which I'll quote here:
		A good example of Conway's Law in action is PowerPoint.
	www.joelamantia.com /blog/archives/ideas/more_on_enterprise_software_is_dead.html (521 words)

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		Metcalfe's law states that the value of a communication system grows as approximately the square of the number of users of the system (n2)"
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