Future Internet Design - Restructuring the Internet Economy

The growth of broad and traffic and applications using the Internet has been exponential in the past few years. Internet working applications have significantly impacted human lives. The Internet and in particular the lower 2 layers have changed significantly in the past decade or so. To meet the emerging demands of end-users, networks have evolved from a bandwidth intensive and quality sensitive perspective. We discuss new technology choices that have emerged in the past few years and how these would impact network design in the near future. In particular, the colloquium discusses optical metro, access and long haul technologies including WDM and Carrier Ethernet. The technology choices in the optical and data layer have a strong impact on Future Internet design. Based on these technology choices we develop a road-map for Future Internet design and how it would impact services, applications, technologies and communities. We also discuss briefly the Indian broadband scenario from an access and metro perspective.