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Japanese Researchers Aim to Replace the Internet

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the optimized-for-giant-robot-transfer dept.

Gary writes "Japanese communications minister Yoshihide Suga said Friday that Japan will start research and development on technology for a new generation of network that would replace the Internet, eyeing bringing the technology into commercial use in 2020. The envisaged network is expected to ensure faster and more reliable data transmission, and have more resilience against computer virus attacks and breakdowns."

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  1. Re:Doesn't this already exist? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Internet 2.0 and Web 2.0 are different things.

    Internet 2.0 - New infrastructure for the net.
    Web 2.0 - My web site is shit, filled with AJAX and contains no content.

  2. Re:Doesn't this already exist? by bockelboy · · Score: 4, Informative

    The Internet 2 is a consortium maintains a high-speed backbone across the US; the costs are subsidized by the government so universities can communicate each other at 10Gbps rates without having to go out to the commercial Internet. A small portion of the funding goes to some middleware projects.

    However, most NSF-funded networking projects use the I2 as their testbed, but they're not necessarily a part of the I2. For example, GENI - the US effort to redesign internet protocols from the ground up - will run in parallel with I2. GENI is the US counterpart to this Japanese effort (although it's hard to tell from the light-on-details article).

  3. Re:Doesn't this already exist? by Retric · · Score: 4, Informative

    I know this is /. but did you read the article you linked?

    Noting actually uses the OSI model it's just an abstraction to help people understand how networking works. The Internet uses the TCP/IP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP/IP_model model of Application, Transport, Network, and Data link layers.

    PS: The internet has redundancy as a mesh of networks even if many of those networks have single point's of failure. On second as you speak with such conviction on subjects you know little about you might belong on /. Welcome to the party.