The Internet

The Internet

1. The natural state of affairs

   • ARPAnet: Advanced Research Projects Agency Network
   • Scaling problems comes in routing protocols

2. The internet suffered from a series congestion collapses

   • The network was operating at full capacity. It was still moving packets around but not working fully

3. The need for policy routing

   • Now each network began to decide which routes to use

4. Mobile IP was then devised to allow a computer to roam while still being at a known IP address

5. Was originally for the military

   • Now is used across the world for research

6. Changing large networks are very difficult

   • Its easier to deploy a new protocol that fills a void than to replace

7. IPTVis getting more popular

   • It appears likely that a large portion of television will be distributed over the IP networks