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The Internet is outdated,
inventor claims
Nick Farrell
The
Inquirer
Wednesday October 03, 2007
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out of date.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.
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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.
More here.
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