Metcalfe's Law Overshoots the Mark

by Stephen Shankland ZDNet News, 14 Mar 2005 Metcalfe's Law posits that the value of a network increases with the square of the number of devices in the network. But in a preliminary paper published March 2, Andrew Odlyzko and Benjamin Tilly of the University of Minnesota's Digital Technology Center concluded that the law "is a significant overestimate." Read the article