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The three types of computing network
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Wired, wireless and cloud — three layers of one connection rather than three choices.
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How physical is the internet?
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Around 99% of international traffic runs through undersea cables. Only the last hop is usually wireless.
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Define: cloud computing
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Computing rented from a provider's data centre rather than owned.
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What does the cloud move out of your control?
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Where the data physically sits, which country's law applies, and whether the service exists tomorrow.
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