Informal Exercise
The VC approaches pioneered by telecom industries trying to get the edge in data networking (X.25) lost to IP. But they are in the form of ATM. Why is VC still an idea that makes market sense?
Can you dream up a product (like Cisco’s router in the 1990s) which will drive and thrive in the Internet spotlight ?
Read ahead appendix A, chap 3.
Long term reading (for Quiz 1): RFCs 1122, 1123, 1812 (host, router requirements)