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collections/tech/internet/internet_today.md

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+# The Internet Is Broken
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+**THE THREE LAYERS OF THE INTERNET**
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+![](internet_3layers.png)
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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
+  - today: highly centralized and running from large datacenters (see below)
+- network: ability for information to travel
+  - can be as wireless, cables (fiber) and satelite links, ...
+  - right now the information needs to travel very far, for most countries there is few local information
+  - very few companies own +80% of the network capacity
+- applications:
+  - today hosted in huge datacenters using the compute and storage capacity as provided
+  - 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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+![](global_net.png)
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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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+![](network_path.png)
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+We became products.
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+![alt text](we_are_products.png)
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+- All our data is hosted in large datacenters owned by few large corporations.
+- We exist many times, and each time a full infrastructure has been built to deliver the applications from.
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