6 I ICT TODAY
The information age is over. This era began in the 1980s with the advent
of computing and internet networking that has led to a boom in computers,
data centers, smartphones, and the communications backbone that connects them.
It has opened a world of information accessibility and communication that
has created entire new industries and upset those not ready for the change.
The information age was about information accessibility, global communications,
and connecting people with ideas and information so that better decisions
could be made. This age has been replaced by the age of digitalization.
Networking
the Edge
for the Age
of Digitalization
with Single-Pair
Ethernet
