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New Technology Offers Internet Traffic
Control Typically, Internet users encounter a wide variety of cybertraffic conditions, ranging from free-flowing traffic to peak-hour jams to complete stalls. With Internet traffic growing by 400 percent annually, such congestion will continue to be a problem.This situation has left many users wishing for a more reliable level of Internet service. Now, scientists at two Department of Energy national laboratories, including the UC-managed Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, have successfully marked selected Internet traffic for priority service over unmarked, lower-priority traffic in a cross-country demonstration. This demonstration is a key milestone in the development of a broad set of capabilities called "Differentiated Services" that are required for the Internet to be able to give different levels of service on demand to network customers. The demonstration of such capabilities for production-mode scientific research between Lawrence Berkeley and Argonne national laboratories will pave the way for more reliable and constant connectivity via priority bandwidth on the Internet. See full Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory press release. 1st appeared 4/17/98 |
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