By Tom Simonite, Technology Review
The Internet was designed to facilitate the sending back and forth of small bits of information. But that’s not how people use the Internet today. A new method of networking could simplify things and make video downloads happen much more quickly. A growing number of researchers think it’s time to rewire the Internet. A fundamentally new approach could better serve the streaming video, nonstop connectivity, and sizable downloads that users have come to expect, these experts say. The problem is simple: the Internet was designed to send small packets of data back and forth in a conversational style, says Glenn Edens, who heads networking research at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). “Where we are today, the Internet is mostly used for the distribution of content like video, pictures, and e-mails,” says Edens, who is leading an effort at PARC to design and test an alternative way of operating the Internet known as content-centric networking—a project that is attracting increasing support from other researchers and companies.
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/506581/a-rewired-internet-would-speed-up-content-delivery/
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