Three Wishes for a Future Internet? GENI Project Will Soon Be At Your Command

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The Global Environment for Network Innovation or GENI is envisioned as a set of components including optical substrates forwarders storage process clusters sensor fields and wireless regions combined with a software management framework. That configu ...
The Global Environment for Network Innovation, or GENI, is envisioned as a set of components including optical substrates, forwarders, storage, process clusters, sensor fields, and wireless regions combined with a software management framework. That configuration will allow researchers to run thousands of experiments simultaneously. Credit: Nicolle Rager Fuller, National Science Foundation

If the proverbial genie gave Internet users three wishes for an improved network what would they ask for? Peace of mind about secure financial transactions" Protection from hackers? Inventive new applications that improve the quality of life?


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