On Distributed Communications: X. Cost Estimate
Paul Baran · RAND Corporation eBooks · 1964
The tenth in a series of 11 memoranda detailing the Distributed Adaptive Message Block Network, this volume provides a cost estimate for the proposed system, based on an arbitrary network configuration of 400 switching nodes, servicing 100,000 simultaneous users via 200 multiplexing stations. Assuming a usable life of ten years, all costs are estimated at about $60,000,000 per year.