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Lecture1: Digital infrastructures for business

The document discusses digital infrastructures, defining them as essential systems and services that support various activities, with a focus on the Internet, cloud computing, mobile technologies, and social media. It highlights the growth of global internet traffic and the increasing reliance on digital services, emphasizing the importance of infrastructure for their delivery. Additionally, it outlines characteristics and examples of digital infrastructures, along with assignments related to railway and internet-dependent products and services.

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Lecture1: Digital infrastructures for business

The document discusses digital infrastructures, defining them as essential systems and services that support various activities, with a focus on the Internet, cloud computing, mobile technologies, and social media. It highlights the growth of global internet traffic and the increasing reliance on digital services, emphasizing the importance of infrastructure for their delivery. Additionally, it outlines characteristics and examples of digital infrastructures, along with assignments related to railway and internet-dependent products and services.

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Digital infrastructures

for business
IS 1181

Lecture 1
Study Guide(Chapter 1,2) Essential reading chapter 5.1

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Infrastructures
• Definitions
• The basic systems and services, such as transport and
power supplies, that a country or organization uses in
order to work effectively
• The basic physical and organizational structures and
facilities (e.g. buildings, roads, power supplies) needed for
the operation of a society or enterprise
Examples
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Digital Infrastructure Intro
• Digital infrastructures are fundamental digital systems and
services which serve as the base for many distinct and separate
activities
• Internet
• hardware
• Software
• agreed standards
• Practices
• Rules of governance
Key digital infrastructures
• Internet
• www
• Cloud computing
• Mobile technologies
• Social media
• Last 4 are built on top of Internet
Infrastructure Traits
• Base for the operations
• Compete with each other
• Physical materials but includes the social and
organizational arrangements we agree upon
• Scale
• Sharing
Electricity infrastructure
• History
• Bring stakeholders to common standard
• Economy of scale
• Regulations
• Building of this infrastructure took a lot of time (140 years
in UK)
Important dimensions
• Installed base
• Path dependency
• Positive network effect
Assignment
• Railway infrastructure
• Digital services depend on infrastructure for delivery, and without
digital services, infrastructure providers have little for their
infrastructure to do
The emergence of digital infrastructures

• Internet
• Historically used for file sharing and email
• Current situation
Internet
• About 4.3 billion people are connected to the internet
March 3,2020, almost half of the world’s population
• 3.9 trillion total world wide
ecommerce sales of U.S. dollars
Internet
• Annual global IP traffic will reach 4.8 ZB per year by 2022, or
396 exabytes (EB) per month. In 2017, the annual run rate for global IP
traffic was 1.5 ZB per year, or 122 EB per month
• In 2016, global IP traffic was 1.2 ZB per year or 96 EB (one billion Gigabytes [GB]) per month.
• Global IP traffic will increase nearly threefold over the next 5 years, and will have increased
127-fold from 2005 to 2021
• Smartphone traffic will exceed PC traffic by 2021
• Traffic from wireless and mobile devices will account for more than 63 percent of total IP
traffic by 2021
• Global Internet traffic in 2021 will be equivalent to 127 times the volume of the entire global
Internet in 2005
Internet
• The number of devices connected to IP networks will be three
times as high as the global population in 2022
• It would take an individual more than 5 million years to watch the
amount of video that will cross global IP networks each month in
2021
• Live Internet video will account for 13 percent of Internet video
traffic by 2021. Live video has grown 15-fold from 2016 to 2021.
Internet
• To transfer digital data through existing communication
networks (what we call legacy systems; the systems we
inherit), linking them together to make a bigger network with
more individual connections
• if the whole infrastructure cannot change because some of its
existing parts lock-in situation
• the set of decisions one faces for any given circumstance [is]
limited by the decisions […] made in the past, even though past
circumstances may no longer be relevant path dependency
Characteristics of
infrastructure
Examples of digital
infrastructures
• Internet
• Hardware, software
• Rules and standards
• a complex set of organizations and institutions
• Usage, access
World wide web
• an information system on the Internet which allows
documents to be connected to other documents by
hypertext links, enabling the user to search for
information by moving from one document to another
• Web pages
• Resources
• standards
Cloud computing
• The practice of using a network of remote servers hosted
on the Internet to store, manage, and process data, rather
than a local server or a personal computer
• Examples
Mobile technology
Mobile technology
• Status in excel
Social media
• Facebook
• Twitter
• Web 2.0
New products
• iPod
• Digital recording
• Buy as per your choice
• Recover lost tracks
• Kindle
• Search engine
Assignment
• Prepare a list of below items that depend on using the internet as a
core infrastructure

• Products
• Services
• Businesses

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