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# The Internet Is Broken
**THE THREE LAYERS OF THE INTERNET**
**The Three Layers Of The Internet**
![](internet_3layers.png)
The Internet is made up out of 3 layers
The Internet is made up of 3 layers:
- compute, storage: this is where the applications are being served from
- today: highly centralized and running from large datacenters (see below)
- network: ability for information to travel
- can be as wireless, cables (fiber) and satelite links, ...
- right now the information needs to travel very far, for most countries there is few local information
- very few companies own +80% of the network capacity
- applications:
- today hosted in huge datacenters using the compute and storage capacity as provided
- too centralized and because of that also vulnerable
1. Compute & Storage: this is where applications are being served from. Currently this system is highly centralized and runs from large data centers (see below).
The information travels mainly over large fiber backbone links.
2. Network: this is the ability for information to travel and it can be wireless, via cables (fiber) or satellite links etc. Currently information needs to travel very far and for most countries very little information is stored locally. A handful of companies own more than 80% of the current Internet's network capacity.
3. Applications: currently applications are hosted in huge data centers using the compute and storage as provided. This system is too centralized and therefore very vulnerable.
Digital information mainly travels over large fiber backbone links as pictured here.
![](global_net.png)
The Internet as we know it is far away from the original intent, if 2 people in e.g. Zanzibar (an Island in Africa) use Zoom with each other then the information will travel to Europe in a large datacenter where the Zoom servers are being hosted.
The Internet as we know it has significantly diverged from its original intent. If 2 people in e.g. Zanzibar (an Island in Africa) use Zoom with each other then the information will travel from Zanzibar to a large European datacenter where the Zoom servers are being hosted and back again.
This leads to very inneficient behavior, slower performance, less reliability and a cost which is higher than what it should be.
![](network_path.png)
We became products.
Another important aspect is the lack of autonomy and sovereignty within this Internet. We have become the products. All of our data is hosted in large data centers owned by a few large corporations.
![alt text](we_are_products.png)
- All our data is hosted in large datacenters owned by few large corporations.
- We exist many times, and each time a full infrastructure has been built to deliver the applications from.
We also exist many times on the Internet across many applications and each time a full infrastructure has been built to deliver the applications from. This system is unsustainable and inefficient.