Intelligent Bandwidth

Integrate and automate environment-sensitive trade-offs

Trade-offs

• BW (where?), latency, space (where?), topology, ...
• Automate trade-offs
  • Middleware knows details
  • Application expresses intent
• Integrated interface / management

New networks break assumptions

• Packet-switched LANs, cable, satellite, cellular networks
• Assumptions were symmetric BW, latency, path, topology

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