However, these systems have demonstrated bottom line results
Information Networking Institute Information Networking Institute College of Engineering Carnegie Mellon University However, these systems have demonstrated bottom line results, and are viewed by many organizations as necessary for long-term success. Although some pitfalls may seem like major obstacles, the actual cases presented throughout this book reveal that major corpo-rations have overcome them. Reduced duplication of effort was cited in areas of new business or market development projects. In many instances, one department may assume responsibility for developing the network to minimize duplication of effort and maximize productivity of information dissemination. Each link corresponds to a path, perhaps through many physical links, in the underlying network. The topology of the overlay zona-viral network may differ from that of the underlying one. For example, many peer-to-peer networks are overlay networks. Unofficially, the Internet is the set of users, enterprises, and c...