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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical RE: Superfast internet may replace world wide web
> Subject: Superfast internet may replace world wide web > says the solemn headline of Telegraph. Hasn't your mummy told you not to believe everything that you read in the papers? Especially when it involves technology! In any case, there is no new Internet here, just an engineered P2P network (or call it a CDN if you will) that is intended to distribute 15 million gigs per year of data to scientists who crunch that data on virtual supercomputer clusters known as the Grid. They do all of this on the Internet today, except for big data transfers for which most countries have build special academic IP networks. The Grid is rather like Amazon's EC2 and this CERN project is rather like Amazon's S3. Yes, I agree with the Telegraph that P2P and cloud computing Amazon style, are indeed the wave of the future, but they won't replace the web or the Internet. They are just another theme being added to the Internet recipe. It's just like Heston Blumenthal's cuisine <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heston_Blumenthal>; it's still food, it's still served in restaurants and it still counts towards his three Michelin stars. Still, I don't expect bacon and eggs ice cream to come to Baskin Robbins anytime soon. --Michael Dillon
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