In 1997, David Isenberg wrote an article called the Rise of the Stupid Network. Isenberg worked at Bell Labs, the R&D lab of AT&T, and was responsible for some significant breakthroughs during the PC and the early internet era. The telephone companies were struggling with the idea of turning their "dumb pipe" into an "intelligent network" by building over-the-top services on top of calls.
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AWS is Not a Dumb Pipe
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In 1997, David Isenberg wrote an article called the Rise of the Stupid Network. Isenberg worked at Bell Labs, the R&D lab of AT&T, and was responsible for some significant breakthroughs during the PC and the early internet era. The telephone companies were struggling with the idea of turning their "dumb pipe" into an "intelligent network" by building over-the-top services on top of calls.