Carlton Demystifies ICN in NetworkWorld

<p>&ldquo;Picture this: you are in an open-plan office, and you need a stapler...&rdquo; This is how InterDigital&rsquo;s Alan Carlton, Vice President of InterDigital Europe, begins his real-world analogy that explains the publish-subscribe model used by Information Centric Networks (ICN) in a <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/article/3060243/internet/demystifying-the-information-centric-network.html">recent NetworkWorld article.</a></p>
<p>In the article, Alan explains what ICN is, why it is important and the role it will have in next-generation 5G networks. He describes to the reader how ICN will play a role in 5G for some very good reasons that include ICN will provide much-needed efficiencies, performance improvements and will align networking architecture with the Internet of Things (IoT). IoT follows the same exact model, publish-subscribe, as ICNm explains Alan in the article.</p>
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