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• BGP, the main protocol governing the internet, was designed over 30 years ago, and is now not fit for purpose. • SCION internet architecture provides a mature, stable alternative. • SCION uses 'formal verification' to ensure stability and eliminates circular dependencies that make BGP problematic. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed and increased society's reliance on digital communication.
Representational image | Pexels Text Size: The internet consumes electricity in different places: on our devices, in data centres and in communication networks that transfer data. With today’s widespread internet usage, the total electricity consumption of its infrastructure (networks and data centres, but not consumer devices) is significant, namely around 500 TWh per year or 2.5% of worldwide electricity consumption.
The Internet is a truly amazing system. Originally developed as a research network in the 1960s and 1970s, it is still operational today, connecting billions of users and tens of billions of devices. It is remarkable that the protocols at the core of the Internet — the Internet Protocol (IP) and the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), which have changed little over the past decades — are able to handle the vast scale the Internet has reached today.
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