Chapter 14. A Simple Ending

This book has covered a lot of heavy, theoretical materials. It began with a general overview of complexity, and moved through various networking technologies to illustrate the complexity found in a wide array of networking technologies. What do you do with this information? There are, of course, direct applications within these pages; this chapter attempts to bring all the lessons learned in the examination of each of these areas into focus.

The chapter begins with a short review of complexity as a theory, and then reviews the three-part model used here to describe complexity. The final section develops a number of practical steps you can take on a day-to-day basis to manage complexity. The goal is not to provide ...

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