Professor Nick McKeown calls for return to a ‘simple’ and ‘dumb’ internet at IET Appleton lecture
Esteemed professor and entrepreneur claims router vendors are making the internet overly complex and asserts that software defined networking (SDN) is the futureLondon, UK, 6th May 2014 - Internet networks are being unnecessarily complicated by router vendors looking to protect their own interests, claims Nick McKeown, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford University. Speaking at the Institution of Engineering and Technology’s (IET ) Appleton prestige lecture last Thursday, he called for the return of a ‘simple’ and ‘dumb’