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- The Accelerator Conundrum
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- Platform as a Service
- Man and Superman
- Web 3.0 = (4C + P + VS)
- The Future: End of Capitalism
- Capitalism 2.0
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Speeding Up the Internet: Algorithms Guru and Akamai Founder Tom Leighton (Part 6)
SM: So, you are saying that centralized data centers have higher latency, and thus lower throughput, and that prevents TV quality video or higher, making the video-on-demand experience unsatisfactory. Is there an example of this you could give? I think it would be helpful to illustrate the point. TL: We have a great case study
Speeding Up the Internet: Algorithms Guru and Akamai Founder Tom Leighton (Part 5)
SM: Let’s take that question and apply it to all these recent media reactions you are getting about Level 3’s announcement that CDN is going to be a commodity and all these telcos are going to provide CDNs. [My previous coverage here.] TL: I think the Telcos have always provided CDN. There has been no
Speeding Up the Internet: Algorithms Guru and Akamai Founder Tom Leighton (Part 3)
SM: Let me ask you a couple of detailed questions on that framework. You have servers inside of various ISPs. The intelligence in that server is your technology and that is how you route traffic. Is that fair to say? TL: At a very high level that is correct. There is a lot of detail
