The Internet2 Network is a project being run by universities to develop or modify TCP/IP for the next generation of connectivity and to take advantage of the benefits of fibre optic transportation. They are also developing monitoring and management tools better suited to handle the huge networks which are becoming commonplace to enable users and machines connected to them to better interface with each other. The Register talks about their newest research and development phase in this story, it seems that Universities have embraced the Cloud and Software Defined Networking in their development of the next generation of networking, likely to the dismay of Cisco. The CloudLab runs a total of 15,000 cores to support the various slices of Cloud that are being implemented, follow the links in the story to get more detailed information on the various projects that are underway.
"The SDN rollout uses the FlowSpace Firewall to slice up segments of connected campuses' 100 Gbps Internet2 connections into discrete slices whose resources are protected from other traffic on the network. That means the 40 attached nodes in America will be able to get their own OpenFlow slices on the network."
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Very cool. But I imagine a
Very cool. But I imagine a world one day, where “internet 2.0” isn’t controlled by any corporation but rather owned and operated on a local/community level, shadowing specific “www” websites that are useful, such as Wikipedia and other resources. But then anything else is sort of like a forum, with file sharing and community boards, optional public profile.. Yadda’ yadda.
Get people together to fund for a few solar networking droids.
Repeaters in high locations and so forth.. With storage getting cheaper it seems more plausible.
Definitively wouldn’t have 15’000 cores BUT YEA’ KNOO.
Either way very good to see are ancient and flawed web is being looked at.
The fact we rely on this broken system so much is honestly terrifying to me, exactly why so many bro’s and I have been trying to create another more human solution. We refer to it as the Anti-Sky project. AKA, Sky-net. Ha. AKA, google. X.x
Oddly I love google, but having so much power on such an unstable architecture is what bothers me.
There needs to be balance.
The internet 2, is a
The internet 2, is a government project to connect educational/some governmental/other government labs, together for governmental/educational/collaborative high speed services, ultra high definition medical images, to hospitals, ultra high speed physics data capture/weather forecasting across connected supercomputers, etc. So much the better, and that data in not clogging up the regular internet. The regular Internet is supposed to be more user funded, and commercialized(it could use some serious Teddy Roosevelt style Trust Busting). The Internet 2 is not for slack jaws and their gewgaws, either get a bipartisan populist Trust Busting movement going or forget it, you will be owned! Big technology is the same as big oil, do not let the style mavens at Apple/M$/whatever fool you, Bill gates, and Steve Jobs, are no different that John D. Rockefeller, or the Vanderbilts, you only have your buying habits to blame!
The market is flooded with good enough PC/Laptops, so stock up on those old models and stay out of the market for a few years, I have 4 laptops, I used to buy a new one every year, the Intel “New” is hardly worth my money, those old quad core laptops, will last me until 2020, and beyond. The old monopolistic monolithic companies, need to be out of business under their current names, and broken up and sold off for their IP, and the IP made licensable for a fee, and offered to the entire industry of parts makers, to supply the entire market of OEM made devices, let the licensed IP market rule, a la Arm Holdings, and now IBM IP licensing(Power8), MIPS licensing, PowerVR GPU licensing, x86’s patents should be forced to be licensable for a fee, no more Intel style supplier monopolies, limiting entire industries to be indentured to one supplier with too much market share.
UltraBooks Are Ultra Crap, and Intel is Much worse than the OLD IBM, it’s time for lots of ISAs across all markets! Bust the TRUSTS, Teddy!
The existing TCP/IP packet
The existing TCP/IP packet suite paired with IP6 is more than robust for many decades to come. As it stands now, each person can have over 32 billion devices with their own unique IP6 address. In total over 340 decitillion addresses (3.4×10^38)
When we finally get rid of ip4 and their legacy workarounds we wont have the issues we see today.
All these guys are doing is creating an VPN on a transit network. Nothing more.