C4.6+Network+Architecture+Future+of+the+Web

C4.6- Describe the role of network architecture [...] in the future development of the web

What is Network Architecture

“Network architecture, is the logical and structural layout of the network consisting of transmission equipment, software and communication protocols and infrastructure (wired or wireless) transmission of data and connectivity between components.”

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There are various types of Networks that resemble Network Architecture, such as the Local Are Network, Wide Area Network, Wireless Network, etc.

Network Architecture Role 20th to 21st century

In the 20th to 21st century Network Architecture developed, as the number of modern technology user increased. New networks were developed and old ones were removed. As some may no longer use the term “Desk Area Network”, since the single hardware parts of a PC are still nodes but aren't known to be visually apart from each other since people buy “a box that works”, other networks like the Wireless Area Network increased in popularity as it provides a large scale public internet provision. As the popularity rises, the exploitation rate rises and as zero-day exploits against the WEP WLAN protection the WPA and WPA-2 protection were developed to increase the security of WLAN’s dramatically.

Network Architecture Role in the future

As mentioned above, the popularity of specific network architectures rises as other networks vanish. In the future, cities will be covered more centripetally with wireless internet connections. Even though some argue, that through the now fast internet available mobile through provider towers and satellites the wireless area network will vanish, it will always stay and be needed, since large amounts of data are preferably transmitted with this network because it allows a higher speed and it has no user limits.

Coming to Local Area Networks, it is prospective, that more and more upper class homes will be equipped with locally connected household devices: the future brings smartphone controlled lamps, coffee-machines, heaters, etc. The LAN speed will probably increase as the manufacturing and the invention of new and better cables will increase the availability. WLAN’s will occur here as well. In both cases, the security will develop parallel to the increase of cyber attacks due to the increase of home network functionalities.

Realistically, companies and private web users acquire a larger amount of internet bandwidth. Everything has to get faster, since new services require a larger bandwidth. Many people are scared that in the future, there will be a limit to normal private users; so that companies and people who pay more have better internet (more bandwidth). Since would create a two class internet. If this doesnt happen we would face the problem of needing a network architecture that allows a higher bandwidth, so that both the private, official, and company users can share high speed internet.

Huawei seas the future in more advanced cloud computing. Less people will use hard-drives in their PCs, but with the increasing speed and availability of internet, PCs will have a Cloud Network, which allows everything to be hosted online. This allows multiple person computers to share the same data anywhere and at any time. It increases cyber threats, due to private data being handed to companies: if such a company is hacked, there will be mass leaks of private data. Cloud Networks will increase in efficiency and security in the future, due to this increase of popularity.

Not very realistically there will be more Virtual Private Networks developed and sophisticated. More and more people are scared or feel insecure because of the governments and black hat hackers threat of spying on private data. VPNs are one of the only possibilities to make the web more private. The Onion Tor Network is one of the most popular ones, but it is very limited in speed. Additionally, private computer networks are being established. Those aren't based upon the public internet, as the VPN’s are, but are created by creating a cabled or wireless connection to other private and trusted people, so that sharing of specific private data can take place in a closed environment. Also gamers and other users who need faster connections are working on private networks that work similarly to the known private internet, but are way more faster and allow only certain certified people to enter.

Facebook and mainly Google are working on a global wireless internet distribution, for a more fair and unfiltered internet access worldwide. Balloons, drones, and satellites will be spread to cover the world area with wireless internet. Of course this is still an utopian idea, but it is actually being developed and tested.



More recently Google presented cars that can drive without a user. In the future there will be more of those cars actually driving on public roads. They will communicate in a new network architecture, that allows cars in a certain area to use collective intelligence to avoid jams and crashes. As the world wide wireless internet distribution program from Google, this project is also a project that will be realized only in coming generations, but with the difference, that those cars already exist and only have to be tested and improved. Concerning the web, it will improve the collective intelligence for road usage. Users can see road events happening in real time and can sowith plan ahead.

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