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."
Re:Uhm (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Opportunity! (Score:1, Interesting)
so I'm going to dust off my old BBS software and install another landline.
Better yet, get your Amateur Radio [arrl.org] license and practice using Packet Radio [wikipedia.org] and PSK31 [wikipedia.org].
Isn't "Digital Sentience" a prereq? (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Wow (Score:3, Interesting)
As any good progammer knows... (Score:3, Interesting)
and will include support for features like 32 levels of network traffic prioritization
...a fixed number of levels means a badly designed program. Or else it would not put any limitations on the number of levels.
Why not just make it go trough the rules recursively like all cascading rule parser? You could even put a configurable limit on it, so it does not crash when coming in contact with infinite levels of rules.
Old Technology (Score:2, Interesting)
> The advanced network technology ... being developed by ... DARPA .. 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
Hahahahahahahahahahaaaaaaa .... "advanced technology" ?
We were doing this in 1980 with the ICL VME mainframe operating system using their proprietary comms protocol "ICLC03", which prioritised traffic according to which of 6 different categories the relevant device was defined to be in. That's how we could support a cluster of 16 dumb terminals and half a dozen printers down one 9.6Kbps line without all the terminals stopping dead every time somebody printed something.
I hardly think the technique can be described as "advanced" ... "common sense" maybe. I've always wondered why TCP-IP doesn't include such a feature.
(Sorry - ICL died such a horrible death that I can't find a link on this modern intarweb thingie to anything usefully describing VME operating system features such as its ICLC03 protocol - but I assure you it's well described in technical manuals in various ring binders in my spare room.)