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36 lines
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# The Internet Is Broken
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**THE THREE LAYERS OF THE INTERNET**
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The Internet is made up out of 3 layers
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- compute, storage: this is where the applications are being served from
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- today: highly centralized and running from large datacenters (see below)
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- network: ability for information to travel
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- can be as wireless, cables (fiber) and satelite links, ...
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- right now the information needs to travel very far, for most countries there is few local information
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- very few companies own +80% of the network capacity
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- applications:
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- today hosted in huge datacenters using the compute and storage capacity as provided
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- too centralized and because of that also vulnerable
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The information travels mainly over large fiber backbone links.
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The Internet as we know it is far away from the original intent, if 2 people in e.g. Zanzibar (an Island in Africa) use Zoom with each other then the information will travel to Europe in a large datacenter where the Zoom servers are being hosted.
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This leads to very inneficient behavior, slower performance, less reliability and a cost which is higher than what it should be.
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We became products.
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- All our data is hosted in large datacenters owned by few large corporations.
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- We exist many times, and each time a full infrastructure has been built to deliver the applications from.
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