S: http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/ ... t-outdatedCan we have a new one?
By Nick Farrell: Wednesday, 03 October 2007, 8:29 AM
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THE BLOKE bloke behind the Pentagon's Advanced Research Projects Agency, ARPAnet says that the Internet is completely out of date.
Larry Roberts ran ARPAnet, which was the precurser to the Internet. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Roberts said that the technology behind the web is now 40 years old and needs a rethink.
He said that when he was working at ARPAnet he was unsure how long the technology could work, especially since the system didn't ensure that information packets would arrive at their destination.
Now he is convinced that there will be all sorts of hell to pay now that companies are using the Internet to make phone calls and consumers begin to dabble in online video.
Roberts said that the Internet wasn't designed for people to watch television and he should know he designed it.
He now runs a start-up, Anagran which makes a flow router that analyses Web traffic to discern whether it is an email, a movie or a phone call and then carves out the bandwidth needed for transmission.
He has become one of the many start-ups trying to producing gear and software to accelerate Internet traffic or to increase the network's capacity.
Does this mean we should be on a Fibre, or T3 broadband internet connection in the future, so we keep up with bandwidth limitations? confusing