Military To Spend $42M To Build Advanced Network Control 102
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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 (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Uhm (Score:5, Funny)
Your post.
It about... (Score:1, Funny)
It's about f-ning time.
Re:Dose it (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Dose it (Score:5, Funny)
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 (Score:0, Funny)
Re:Uhm (Score:5, Funny)
Well, every manager knows that power point slides have always the highest priority. Fuck those missiles.
Re:Wow (Score:4, Funny)
Someone else with no experience doing massive implementations of new infrastructure spouting off.
Consider me unimpressed.
Re:Prioritize my SPAM? (Score:2, Funny)
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... (Score:2, Funny)
$42M? Does it include searching for the answer to life, the universe and everything?
Re:The Next Internet? (Score:2, Funny)
Yes. In the future you'll only get Gross Neutrality.
Re:Opportunity! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The Next Internet? (Score:3, Funny)
Oh! You mean like marking P2P as "low priority" during peak usage hours...oh wait...
Already been done (Score:3, Funny)
I hope the military enjoys it more than the average peer-to-peer user on cable.