According to a recent Wired article
entitled 'Are Enterprises Ready for Billions of Devices to
Join the Internet?' by David Puglia, "[t]here are currently
more devices connected to the Internet than there are people in the
world." That is a pretty astonishing statistic!
The article went on to describe how that number is only
expected to grow exponentially in the future thanks, in large part,
to the widespread proliferation of the Internet of Things
("IoT"), and how the expansion of the IoT will impact the
computer network architecture that supports and provides
connectivity for all of these devices.
In a very rudimentary sense, the IoT
is an ever expanding network of what were once considered
everyday objects that can can now operate through available
bandwidth to further automate the way we live, work, and play.
That calorie counting bracelet you got for Christmas and the
home monitoring system you use to keep track of the nanny from your
smartphone — all of
