The "Other" Grid
Many Second Life’s users think of “The Grid” to mean interconnected virtual world servers, especially Linden Lab’s grid, this term cannot be trademarked by Linden Lab. Not only has the term been in use to describe the electrical grid and the Internet itself. and then Grid computing (The OpenGrid Forum), there is now from CERN, originators of the Internet their own Grid.
All these Grids have one issue, “The last mile” The Internet service providers, tel-cos, and cable giants with their antiquated equipment and expensive pricing models.
Again this shows that the technology is here now to solve another piece of the LAG and all the client side rendering issues. It is businesses, the economy, the market, and those large companies & industries that hold back change not technology.
CERN Develops Possible Internet Replacement, Unfathomably Faster
source: www.dailytech.com
“Internet up to 10,000 times faster deployed, may see consumer use within a year or two
CERN, the Geneva-based particle physics center which spawned the world wide web in 1989, is looking to create the next internet, and has already laid down the essential ground work for it. Experts say it is sorely needed. Recent industry analysis, such as DailyTech’s recent piece “American Broadband: Pathetic and Disgraceful,” has revealed that most customer languish under poor data rates and high costs.
The new internet from CERN could change all that. The proposed system averages speeds of up to 10,000 times the typical broadband connection today. The new internet is known as “the grid” and could send the entire Rolling Stones catalog from Britain to Japan in two seconds, a scenario akin to the RIAA’s worst nightmare…..”