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Intel Predicts Death Of WWW

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the any-time-now dept.

LostCluster writes "Forbes is running a report saying that Intel's CTO claims that the WWW is 'running up on some architectural limitations' that will eventually cause its downfall. He's pushing a project called PlanetLab that has Princeton, Cambridge, Hewlett-Packard and AT&T on board, but Cisco is notably absent from that team."

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  1. Well... by spieters · · Score: 5, Informative

    Don't bother to RTFA this time, the article's about as low on info as the summary.

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    1. Re:Well... by Ranx · · Score: 5, Informative

      Intel's press release about the same speech has a little bit more information, although nothing technical.

      http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/20 040909corp.htm

      Also interesting: a link to the open platform website:

      http://www.planet-lab.org/

      Interesting quotes:

      "Applications run on PlanetLab are decentralized, with pieces running on many machines spread across the global Internet. They can also self-organize to form their own networks, and include some form of application processing inside the network (instead of at the edges), adding new intelligence and capabilities to the Internet."

      "It would provide a platform on which Web services can run and a way to connect grid computing sites and utility data centers. It sits above the new physical infrastructure supplied by Internet 2 and above the networking layer where IPv6 functions, adding a new stratum of higher-level functionality to the Internet."

      Why it has to replace the current TCP/IP-infrastructure is still unclear (apart from selling more hardware).

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