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The Sustainable Network

The Accidental Answer for a Troubled Planet

By
Sarah Sorensen
Publisher:
O'Reilly Media
Released:
October 2009
Pages:
368
Description
The Sustainable Network demonstrates how we can tackle challenges, ranging from energy conservation to economic and social innovation, using the global network -- of which the public Internet is just one piece. To help solve a myriad of problems today, author Sarah Sorensen points out that the best tool for enacting change already exists, lying literally at our fingertips. This book demystifies the power of the network, and issues a strong call to action.
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Table of Contents

  1. Chapter 1 I Am a Node

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

    1. Linking Things Together

    2. Protocols

    3. Just a Few More Terms: Hosts, Routers, Switches, LANs, and WANs

  3. Chapter 3 Green by Accident

  4. Chapter 4 What Makes the Network Sustainable?

  5. Chapter 5 Broadband: What Is It?

  6. Chapter 6 Can the Internet Hit a Wall?

  7. Chapter 7 The Mobile Me

  8. Chapter 8 Take It with You

  9. Chapter 9 The Network's Green Factor

  10. Chapter 10 Carbon Footprints

    1. Watch Your Weight

    2. A Product's Carbon Footprint

    3. The Business of Reducing Carbon

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

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

    1. What You Can Do

  13. Chapter 13 Dematerialization

    1. What You Can Do

  14. Chapter 14 Detravelization

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

    1. IPSec

    2. MPLS

    3. SSL

  16. Chapter 16 Pushing the Boundaries

    1. Let's Get Specific

    2. What You Can Do

  17. Chapter 17 Data Center

    1. What About the Actual Equipment?

    2. Basic Consumption Reduction

    3. General Tips for Facilities

    4. Tips for Data Centers

  18. Chapter 18 Energy Efficiency Measurement

  19. Chapter 19 Doing Good by Doing Right

  20. Chapter 20 Is Broadband Really That Important?

  21. Chapter 21 Sustainable Providers

  22. Chapter 22 Net Neutrality

  23. Chapter 23 Tearing Down Economic Boundaries

  24. Chapter 24 Information Is King

  25. Chapter 25 Evolution

  26. Chapter 26 Network Time

  27. Chapter 27 Political Sustainability

  28. Chapter 28 Rocking the Vote

  29. Chapter 29 The Right to Network Usage

  30. Chapter 30 Challenges of the Networked World

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

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

    1. The Machines

    2. The People

    3. And Sometimes It's Just Good Hacking

  33. Chapter 33 Antisocial Network Engineering

  34. Chapter 34 Protect the Net

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

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

    1. How the Network Can Help Efforts

  37. Chapter 37 21st-Century Warfare: Cyberattacks

  38. Chapter 38 Social Sustainability

  39. Chapter 39 The Health Net

    1. What You Can Do

  40. Chapter 40 Not by Accident: Social Networking

  41. Chapter 41 Our Relationship with the Network

  1. A Quick Cheat Sheet of Common Terms

  2. Notes

    36. Glossary

  3. Colophon

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Product Details
Title:
The Sustainable Network
By:
Sarah Sorensen
Publisher:
O'Reilly Media
Formats:
  • Print
  • Ebook
  • Safari Books Online
Print Release:
October 2009
Ebook Release:
October 2009
Pages:
368
Print ISBN:
978-0-596-15703-6
| ISBN 10:
0-596-15703-7
Ebook ISBN:
978-0-596-80719-1
| ISBN 10:
0-596-80719-8
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About the Author

  1. Sarah Sorensen

    Sarah Sorensen is currently the Sr. Manager of Corporate Communications at Juniper Networks. She has spearheaded Juniper's Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives and worked on the company's corporate sustainable program, while managing Juniper's business announcements, crisis communications, public sector outreach and overall corporate message consistency across all business units. She has developed and written dozens of white papers, byline articles, and presentations on and about the networking and security industries. A graduate of UCLA (1996) where she majored in English and was a member of UCLA's Division 1 women's soccer team, she has focused her efforts in marketing, communications, and public relations for both start-ups and Fortune 500 companies.

    View Sarah Sorensen's full profile page.

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