# The Internet Is Broken

**THE THREE LAYERS OF THE INTERNET**

![](internet_3layers.png)

The Internet is made up out 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

The information travels mainly over large fiber backbone links.

![](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.

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.

![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.