Information technology abroad: Major IT companies are developing a new web technology

Google, OpenDNS, Verisign, and several other participants in the Internet market have created new technology to accelerate the delivery of data worldwide. The new development complements the Domain Name System, which provides addresses to the WAN. In technical circles, it is referred to as   Edns-client-subnet or Global Internet Speedup. It uses geographical information associated with a specific IP-address, and automatically switches the client device user to receive data from the closest or fastest server.

Google, for its part, offered this technology last year, although its concept has been discussed for a long time. Obviously, Google, as the largest "traffic generator" of the Internet, is interested in maximum operation speed of its resources, like no other. That is why the Internet giant has launched a support for the technology on its public DNS-service.

The technology allows you to work in such a way that one part of a large data packet is requested from one server, another part – from another server. The client gets it all in one package, as if the response is received from a single server. «Google has always stood for making faster not only its own services, but the Internet as a whole", - said Google engineer Dave Prescotto. - "We are doing everything in our power: improve the protocols, improve the browser, client software and the network itself."