Dodge, Martin and Kitchin, Rob (2001) Examining Different Approaches to Mapping Internet Infrastructure. CASA Working Paper Series No. 39. Working Paper. UCL: Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, London.
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Abstract
Over the last decade or so there has been a phenomenal growth in the use
and diversity of information and communications technologies (ICTs), with the
rise of Internet being of particular note. Current estimates, as of autumn
2001, are that 513 million people from around the world use the Internet for all
manner of personal and business communications (Nua 2001). Concomitant to
this growth, there has been a multi-billion dollar investment in vast
assemblages of powerful computer servers and the infrastructure necessary to
support current and projected demand in information processing and exchange,
including long haul fibre-optic backbones networks to link countries and
metropolitan cores, high-speed routers and switches, and ‘last-mile’ DSL and
cable connections (see OECD 2001, TeleGeography 2001 for current statistics).
This strategic investment is designed to garner market share in the rapidly
expanding information economy (worth a reported $775.6 billion in the US
alone in 1999; US Census, Service Annual Survey 1999 1). Understanding the
development and growth of ICTs, the myriad of their social, economic, and
political consequences, as well as the practical tasks of planning infrastructure
deployment, however, is no easy task. In this chapter, we argue that one
useful strategy for analyzing and comprehending the Internet is the application
of concepts and techniques from cartography and geographic visualization.
Item Type: | Monograph (Working Paper) |
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Additional Information: | © Copyright CASA, UCL |
Keywords: | ICT; Internet Infrastructure; servers; routers; mapping; |
Academic Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Geography Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Institutes > National Institute for Regional and Spatial analysis, NIRSA |
Item ID: | 2751 |
Depositing User: | Prof. Rob Kitchin |
Date Deposited: | 06 Oct 2011 14:25 |
Publisher: | UCL: Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis |
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URI: | https://mu.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/2751 |
Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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