Friday, January 8, 2010

2020 - You may see a different Internet

According to U.S computer scientists, in 2020 the internet may no longer be recognized. The internet is a place filled with spam, phishing, and latency. The idea in 10 years is to create an Internet without so many security breaches, containing a higher level of trust as well as built-in identity management. Currently, scientists are trying to build an Internet that is higher performing and more reliable. This new internet will most likely be able to extend to some of the most remote regions of the world . . . even other planets! One reason for this idea of creating a new internet for the futureis because some experts fear that the Internet will collapse under the weight of many cyber-attacks. The biggest goal is to make the Internet more secure. GENI, Global Environment for Network Innovations, is an internet research project that has developed an experiment network infrastructure that is being installed in many universities throughout the United States. This new infrastructure allows researchers to run large experiments of new Internet architectures next to the daily traffic on the Internet today, but not interfering with it. "When we use today's Internet, you and I can buy any application program that we want and run it….GENI takes this idea several steps further. It allows you to install any software you want deep into the network anywhere you want. You can program switches and routers," said Chip Elliot, GENI Project Director. The GENI project contains three types of network infrastructures. If the plan doesn't work out by 2020, U.S Computer Scientists believe that something will have to be done to improve the Internets security. Security is the biggest reason these ideas are being tested and these new ideas may even become reality in the future.


http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/010410-outlook-vision.html?ts0hb&story=outlook

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