| "In the last century, railroads revolutionized the world by providing a transportation network that moved raw materials and manufactured products. They made an industrialized society possible. Digital communication networks have started a new revolution by providing the technology that transports the data needed by a society in which information plays a key role. It has already begun to change the way we view the world by shrinking geographic distances and forming new communities of people who interact frequently. More important, network growth is explosive. The revolution is well underway." |
-Douglas Comer, Internetworking with TCP/IP: Principles, Protocols, and Architecture