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Dedication

Preface

Ch. 1. I Am a Node

Ch. 2. What Is the Network: How Does It Work?

Ch. 3. Green by Accident

Ch. 4. What Makes the Network Sustainable?

Ch. 5. Broadband: What Is It?

Ch. 6. Can the Internet Hit a Wall?

Ch. 7. The Mobile Me

Ch. 8. Take It with You

Ch. 9. The Network's Green Factor

Ch. 10. Carbon Footprints

Ch. 11. Net Efficiencies: Maximizing Resources While Minimizing Waste

Ch. 12. What's So Smart About an Energy Grid?

Ch. 13. Dematerialization

Ch. 14. Detravelization

Ch. 15. What Is the Network: How Is Telecommuting Enabled?

Ch. 16. Pushing the Boundaries

Ch. 17. Data Center

Ch. 18. Energy Efficiency Measurement

Ch. 19. Doing Good by Doing Right

Ch. 20. Is Broadband Really That Important?

Ch. 21. Sustainable Providers

Ch. 22. Net Neutrality

Ch. 23. Tearing Down Economic Boundaries

Ch. 24. Information Is King

Ch. 25. Evolution

Ch. 26. Network Time

Ch. 27. Political Sustainability

Ch. 28. Rocking the Vote

Ch. 29. The Right to Network Usage

Ch. 30. Challenges of the Networked World

Ch. 31. Network Defenses Depend on How Traffic Is Sent

Ch. 32. I Am on the Net, Therefore I Am Vulnerable

Ch. 33. Antisocial Network Engineering

Ch. 34. Protect the Net

Ch. 35. The Last Best Place to Attack: Your Mobile

Ch. 36. Government's Role in Protecting the Network's Integrity

Ch. 37. 21st-Century Warfare: Cyberattacks

Ch. 38. Social Sustainability

Ch. 39. The Health Net

Ch. 40. Not by Accident: Social Networking

Ch. 41. Our Relationship with the Network

A Quick Cheat Sheet of Common Terms

Notes

Colophon

Chapter 5. Broadband: What Is It?

I feel the need, the need for speed.
—Maverick to Goose in the movie Top Gun

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