The 50 most powerful people in networking

摘要

One of the secrets of power is knowing how to live well in the limelight Like it or not, power obliges a person to be a role model. This twists itself into notoriety for some and celebrity status for others. As always, our list represents the role models of the network industry across the vendor, user and regulatory communities, as well as among standards setters and big thinkers. But this year, the list is ranked, too. For the ranking, we looked at numerous criteria, including the persons title and responsibility within the company the persons visibility (determined by media and speaking appearances in the last year), the ways in which the person functions as a role model for the network industry and a characteristic we call "clout." Clout is how far a person's overall influence reaches, be that throughout a company, a subset of the network community the industry the entire business world or even with national governments.