The Internet Stack
暫譯: 網際網路堆疊
Tiwana, Amrit
- 出版商: MIT
- 出版日期: 2025-09-16
- 售價: $900
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $855
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 206
- 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
- ISBN: 0262553627
- ISBN-13: 9780262553629
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商品描述
An accessible journey through the seam that connects the digital world of the Internet to our physical world.
The stack--the conduit between our digital and physical worlds--is the elusive, mysterious, and least-understood part of the Internet. In the five seconds it took you to read that, 100 quadrillion bits of data just whizzed through the stack. Our metaphors--cloud, virtual, cyber--blind us to the incredible reality: The Internet is a physical thing: dingy, wet, and rusty. In The Stack, Amrit Tiwana takes us on a journey through this gritty reality. The book begins with its breathtaking physical layer, laden with geography, luck, and history dating to the Civil War era. Then it shows us how most Internet traffic flows deep undersea as laser beams, not up in the "cloud" via satellites. It goes on to explore how the stack constructs and deconstructs "packets" layer-by-layer, how these packets travel over rickety paths, and how the stack can assimilate stuff that has yet to be invented. Finally, it discusses how we construct resilience out of fragile parts and how quantum computing might affect the stack.
The stack--the conduit between our digital and physical worlds--is the elusive, mysterious, and least-understood part of the Internet. In the five seconds it took you to read that, 100 quadrillion bits of data just whizzed through the stack. Our metaphors--cloud, virtual, cyber--blind us to the incredible reality: The Internet is a physical thing: dingy, wet, and rusty. In The Stack, Amrit Tiwana takes us on a journey through this gritty reality. The book begins with its breathtaking physical layer, laden with geography, luck, and history dating to the Civil War era. Then it shows us how most Internet traffic flows deep undersea as laser beams, not up in the "cloud" via satellites. It goes on to explore how the stack constructs and deconstructs "packets" layer-by-layer, how these packets travel over rickety paths, and how the stack can assimilate stuff that has yet to be invented. Finally, it discusses how we construct resilience out of fragile parts and how quantum computing might affect the stack.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
一段可接觸的旅程，穿越連接數位世界與我們物理世界的縫隙。
堆疊——我們數位與物理世界之間的通道——是互聯網中最難以捉摸、神秘且最不被理解的部分。在你花五秒鐘閱讀這段文字的時間裡，100 萬兆位元組的數據已經在堆疊中迅速流過。我們的隱喻——雲端、虛擬、網路——使我們無法看清驚人的現實：互聯網是一個物理存在的事物：陰暗、潮濕且生鏽。在The Stack中，Amrit Tiwana 帶領我們穿越這個粗糙的現實。這本書以其驚人的物理層開始，這一層承載著地理、運氣和追溯至南北戰爭時期的歷史。接著，它向我們展示了大多數互聯網流量是如何以激光束的形式深埋於海底，而不是透過衛星在「雲端」中傳輸。它進一步探討了堆疊如何逐層構建和解構「封包」，這些封包如何在搖搖欲墜的路徑上傳輸，以及堆疊如何能夠吸收尚未發明的東西。最後，它討論了我們如何從脆弱的部分構建韌性，以及量子計算可能如何影響堆疊。作者簡介
Amrit Tiwana is the Fuqua Distinguished Chair of Internet Strategy at the University of Georgia. He previously served on the faculty of Emory University and Iowa State University.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
阿姆里特·提瓦納（Amrit Tiwana）是喬治亞大學（University of Georgia）福夸（Fuqua）網路策略特聘教授。他曾在埃默里大學（Emory University）和愛荷華州立大學（Iowa State University）任教。
