"The project is a joint initiative between industry partners and academia, in order to renew a transport architecture that is still based largely on developments than three decades," says Dr. David Ros, coordinator of NEAT. "Modern connected applications require a transport architecture that is more flexible, given the significant changes in the way we use the Internet that have taken place in recent decades. The current context includes mobile users and an increasingly blurry line between data communication services and telecommunications", he said.
Today there is no software on the market that is comparable to the NEAT transport system, as it will offer developers a new way of specifying the requirements of an application, in terms of transfer rate, delay, reliability, cost, etc. So, noticing these requirements, the NEAT system chooses or help the application to select the best communication service available, simplifying its task. And all of this process, in a deployment scenario of open source software which facilitates its adoption.
But that's not all, since NEAT plans to move beyond implementations and standards of existing network protocols, it will also be evaluated in several usage scenarios such as mobile broadband, connecting mobile customers in emerging markets to web services "first" interactive applications, and cloud platforms with distributed storage systems in data centers.
