Metcalfe's Law
Definition
Total value of a network to its users grows as the square of the total number of its users. Thus, the ratio of value to cost of adding one more network user grows disproportionately as the network grows larger. Also called law of telecosm, it was proposed by Robert C. Metcalfe, co-inventor of the Ethernet.
Metcalfe's Law is in the Data Management, Communications, & Networks and Internet & World Wide Web subjects.
Metcalfe's Law appears in the definition of the following term: law of telecosm
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