It's been a while since I've posted any tech stories, why not start again with this. At a recent Intel conference CTO Pat Gelsinger stated Intel's plans to build a new network on top of the existing one.

"The basic technologies underlying the internet were developed more than 30 years ago and, said Mr Gelsinger, were never meant to cope with the number of users and amount of data traffic seen on the net today."

"The future smarter net envisioned by Mr Gelsinger would spot and stop worm outbreaks before they caused widespread disruption and route traffic more intelligently to cope with the peaks of troughs of data."

You can read more on the BBC.

Current protocols can only manage a certain number of IP addresses. With all kinds of new technologies and devices such as PDA's, VOIP, etc. there's bound to be an ever increasing load on the current network.