Home Networks: The Rise of Consumer IT Infrastructure
Home networks are now an essential part of Internet access There are relatively few broadband-connected homes that do not have wireless routers to distribute access to the myriad devices that can now be connected with Internet-provided services And, while a purist might argue that a central node-based architecture is not a very good example of networking, the fact is that, historically, such node-based architectures represented much of the early business networking infrastructure Eventually, such approaches gave way to the multi-node networks that are common in today's enterprises