Content-Centric Networks

I recently viewed a video article by Van Jacobson on Content Centric Networks.The concept is really awesome and just what the INTERNET needs now to improve its usability.Well Let me explain what this fuss is all about!

To access any specific content,you have to access a specific site that contain the content for retrieval.So you need to know the location of the server that contains the information that you need.Well this made sense in the past before the days of google or yahoo's search engines.Now it is possible for us to know the location of the days by just typing the name/tag of the content that we need.The search engine does the job for and provides the source location of this content.

Now consider this concept in which the content is not stored in one place but it could be stored on your shared disk,which you,out of u r big heart have donated to the INTERNET. Now you have multiple source locations of the same content. Being said as the content being literally on the INTERNET cloud.

This helps us to avoid a central server being swarmed for a popular content and localize the content delivery.Helps us to avoid unnecessary network traffic.

well does it not look like a P2P system or even caching for that matter.I did think it was like that but P2P works well in case of popular content,cos then you have more seeders or in case of caching there is still a central source. Remove the term popular content and make it possible for all content and make is available everywhere (users shared disk driver )instead of specific cache servers and there you go,you have content centric networks.