Military To Spend $42M To Build Advanced Network Control

coondoggie writes "BBN, which was bought by defense giant Raytheon today, got almost $11 million to help build self-configuring network technology that would identify traffic, let the network infrastructure prioritize it down to the end user, reallocate bandwidth between users or classes of users, and automatically make quality-of-service decisions. The advanced network technology is being developed by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and will include support for features like 32 levels of network traffic prioritization that will let data with a higher priority will be handled more expeditiously than traffic with a lower priority."

Dose it

[Hognoxious]

Does it work via twitter? If it does I think IBM's lawyers want a word...

Re:Uhm

[Anonymous Coward]

Your post.

It about...

[Anonymous Coward]

It's about f-ning time.

Re:Dose it

[Anonymous Coward]

Does it work via SHUT THE FUCK UP? If it does, I think the rest of us will be relieved that we didn't have to suffer a bunch of retarded Twitter references.

Re:Dose it

[maxwell demon]

Early experiments using the STFU protocol showed that network traffic went to zero. While this had positive cost impact, for example because you could omit all those costly cables without further harm, it was finally concluded that data rates above zero had enough advantages to offset those costs.

Didn't they make a movie or two about this

[Gendo420]

"self-configuring network technology" I seem to remember something about this in a movie once, I think it sounds like something that was called skynet......or something like that. I dunno maybe y'all can help me remember

Re:Uhm

[maxwell demon]

Well, every manager knows that power point slides have always the highest priority. Fuck those missiles.

Re:Wow

[geekoid]

Someone else with no experience doing massive implementations of new infrastructure spouting off.

Consider me unimpressed.

Re:Prioritize my SPAM?

[maxwell demon]

Just upload that spam to missiles and deliver it physically. You surely will get highest priority that way.

Re:$11M v $42M, before anyone asks...

[maxwell demon]

$42M? Does it include searching for the answer to life, the universe and everything?

Re:The Next Internet?

[maxwell demon]

Yes. In the future you'll only get Gross Neutrality.

Re:Opportunity!

[FudRucker]

if the US Gov gets any more czars this place is going to start looking like Russia before the soviet era, it could be a government plot to make post soviet Russia jealous.

Re:The Next Internet?

[Flea of Pain]

Oh! You mean like marking P2P as "low priority" during peak usage hours...oh wait...

Already been done

[sunderland56]

$11 million to do what Comcast already does?

I hope the military enjoys it more than the average peer-to-peer user on cable.