Scientists Strive to Map the Shape-Shifting Net

March 2, 2010 | Source: New York Times

The shape of the Internet is changing rapidly, driven by a variety of factors, including content delivery networks that have pushed both data and applications to the edge of the network; the growing popularity of smartphones, leading to the emergence of the wireless Internet; the explosion of streaming video as the Internet’s predominant data type; and “dark networks,” private channels created to move information more cheaply and efficiently within a business or any kind of organization.