Internet Architects Warn of Risks in Ultrafast Networks

Oh God, the FUD... it's... <i>palpable</i>. And what in the <i>world</i> do AWS and Gmail outages have to do with Internet protocols?<p>That said, their new tech sounds interesting, but it's buried in buzzwords and non-comprehending journalism. I don't have the slightest idea if it's just a self-healing mesh with a new sticker on it, or if it's something <i>actually</i> different.

The title is disappointing.<p>This is about Arista Networks, a Bechtolsheim funded network device company.<p>The interesting thing is - as near as I can make out - Arista is another software-defined networking company (in this case the software seems to be designed to isolate bugs(?)).<p>I'm not in the field, but I deal with people who spend large amounts of money on hardware network devices, and it is clear to me (as a software guy) that the whole network device field is going to disrupted by software any day now.

“I’ve made the claim that the Chinese military can take it down in 30 seconds, no one can prove me wrong”<p>Is this the new journalistic standard at the New York Times now?

"An engineering standard for a terabit per second, 1,000 gigabits, is expected in about seven years."<p>1Tb/s network speed! In which score would that kind of technology set us in the Carl Sagan's information based Civilization scale?<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale#Extensions_to_the_original_scale" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale#Extensions_to_t...</a>