Investigating NOIA: Blockchain's Network of Internet Acceleration
Purpose: To briefly overview the NOIA Network while posing questions about its decentralized approach toward utilizing spare bandwidth over a smart payment gateway. Additional investigation follows the briefing.
Here is a list of questions presented throughout this article that explores how the NOIA Network will help create a new, better digital ecosystem:
- In what ways does making rewards fundamental to CD impact the digital ecosystem?
- Active Disruption: How might other innovative projects respond to NOIA’s plan to actively facilitate solutions while having the power to disrupt the CDN market?
- In what specific ways can NOIA Network bring order to the CDN market?
- Consider how CDNs are being driven by DevOps. Explain the role of NOIA's blockchain innovation for the future of CDN development.
- Consider why the current CDN market is characteristically chaotic. How does NOIA’s blockchain solution fit into CD innovation for the future?
Examination of NOIA Network
Introducing the NOIA Network
NOIA Network takes part in the blockchain revolution by creating a decentralized shared economy. This much needed networking innovation focuses on solving internet infrastructure problems by providing a better content delivery network (CDN).
A Next-Generation CDN and Token Economy
NOIA Network is the next generation of content delivery (CD) innovation. It is a peer-to-peer (P2P) solution that can make use of the computers of the world to optimize the delivery of all web content. Blockchain technology is applied to file sharing and artificial intelligence (AI) to develop a single P2P global intranet.
In what ways does making rewards fundamental to content delivery impact the digital ecosystem?
Conventional CDNs use POPs as centralized data centers; whereas, NOIA Network uses the growing number of everyday devices to form a new decentralize POPs network. This allows individuals to profit off of unused resources while simultaneous cutting cost of business around the world. NOIA is a better economic model and more efficient solution. It is autonomous, decentralized, and highly scalable. The ultimate goal is to grow the network so large so as to be entirely self-sustained. This would lead to optimal sharing within a fairly governed ecosystem.
Plans for Complete Decentralization
A Single, Adaptable CDN Solution
This implementation method puts NOIA Network at the center of an evolving CDN ecosystem as a bridge between decentralized and centralized content hosting. Furthermore, it offers complete global accesses to hosted content with unlimited applicability. This last point is a major issue, in terms of complexity and cost, for current centralized options. The advantages of NOIA's technology is pairing flexibility with a better predictive traffic and data storage model.
Active Disruption: How might other innovative projects respond to NOIA’s plan to actively facilitate solutions while having the power to disrupt the CDN market?
Framework and Governance
NOIA Network employs two intertwined primary layers:
- a Content Scaling Layer (CSL) that provides the framework
- and a smart contract driven governance layer for distributing value
Content storage times are optimized to maximize bandwidth resources. This has advantages for scaling, dynamic content distribution, and makes it highly adaptable to traffic.
Machine Learning for Local CD
AI is integral to NOIA Network. Machine learning (ML) is applied to traffic prediction for caching content, unlimited scaling through POPs, efficiency, speed, optimized routing, forecasting demand, and allows for payments specific to successful deliveries.
ML improves efficiency by replacing international networks with local content delivery. Demand factors play a big role in this local internet infrastructure approach. This is of great benefit for reaching and equalizing internet infrastructure across all regions of the world.
NOIA provides the ultimate solution for expensive data transfer. Data host costs are significantly reduced through the use of ML. It optimized processes using a decentralized P2P network while relieving the areas of potential bottlenecks.
Further Investigation
An Increasingly Complex and Dynamic CDN Market
In 2017, Mahendra Ramsinghani of TechCrunch wrote about the changes rapidly occurring in the CDN market. Some of these technological shifts include:
- bloated web pages
- growth of video
- increasing mobile consumption
- optimization of outdated routing
- new applications
As factors become increasingly complicated and relationships mature, the CDN market desperately seeks a stable solution. Consider how dynamic microservices, continuous integration / delivery, and performance try to find a balance with security protocols. For some, a fragmented CDN environment requires them to go through multiple logins. An answer can be found by replacing centralization with decentralized integration.
In what specific ways can NOIA Network bring order to the CDN market?
Consider how CDNs are being driven by DevOps. Explain the role of NOIA’s blockchain innovation for the future of CDN development.
NOIA Network is the only practical decentralized solution within the CDN market. The advantages are clear.
NOIA is Ahead of the Innovation Curve
Salahuddin et. al. (2018) published A Survey on Content Placement Algorithms for Cloud-Based Content Delivery Networks in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). The paper discusses the operational cost incurred from pulling content from surrogate servers and billing. Below is a brief comparison of CDNs and CCDNs:
- CDNs:
- no operational costs
- billing is simply proportional to end-user traffic
- cloud-based content delivery networks (CCDN):
- operational costs are significant to the coordination of pulling content
- billing must account for operational costs
- solves the limitations of conventional CDNs (NOIA Network uses blockchain technology to overcome limitations) CCDNs improve scalability, reliability, security, and cost savings in some areas
- like the NOIA Network, are affordable for small businesses, yet applicable for large organizations
Some of the more innovative CCDNs are looking for ways to evolve beyond the inefficient algorithmic approaches of conventional centralized solutions for surrogate servers. Distributed pushbased CP algorithms is one example.
Becoming more evident is how the market recognizes the advantages of characteristically distributed technology. NOIA is clearly ahead in CDN innovation. This is because it utilizes the advantages of cryptographic technology fundamental to blockchains to provide a decentralized and distributed ledger solution.
Consider the currently chaotic CDN market. How might NOIA’s industry-disruptive (but accommodating) blockchain solution fit into content delivery innovation for the future?
Additional Information
NOIA's testnet is actively growing. Here is what it looked like on August 16, 2018.
Read about NOIA 2.0.
The team at NOIA Network releases weekly video updates. Here is the introductory video:
All information was taken from the NOIA Network website, where the whitepaper and technical paper can be found, except for the section entitled "Further Investigation".
Interesting project. Thanks for info :-)
Your welcome @cicbar.
yes its really good
Wow(X3)! ( ˘ ³˘)♥
A round of applause for you from me @machnbirdsparo
This is another very resourcefully woven piece about NOIA I must tell. This is obvious; I am not trying to exaggerate your capacity as brilliantly displayed up there. (͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
I mean it's evident:
How you started with necessary Inquisitions about the ecosystem.
The organization of your findings in the NOIA's whitepaper would make it simple enough even for an average reader, new to the world of cryptosystem and/ or hinter-activities about internet, to understand good enough.
Most unexpectedly, you made further reviews, you integrated them with the prior paragraphs and you still/then made it obvious the context aren't yours directly by making references to the source -- that is formal of you.
I mean, what more do I need to know about NOIA as per intro that is not here please? If at all there is, it would be little or new information around most probably.
I must add this, I recently learned new ideas as per AI. Getting to know through this review that NOIA have put AI into consideration effectively in bettering their services is a great knowledge and a brilliant integration from NOIA.
Kudos! (¬_¬)ﾉ
But I need to hint that it's not only NOIA that is in the system trying to make the needed difference to the convenience of both of the poor and the wealthy users, small and big investments with vast volume of decentralization. No, NOIA is not the only one but I can tell with emphasis now NOIA IS YET THE BEST AND THE MOST PROMISINGLY RELIABLE, and you hinted SO too briefly in a way in your review.
Happily curated... and shared... Thanks @crypto.poitr for again recommending this. ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°
@jodekss
I am humbled as I take my bow. Never have I received such commendation here on Steemit, or anywhere else for that matter. But, what should I expect from an English major :) Mine was aviation.
At the end of the day, while people will find reading the whitepaper very valuable, I focused my effort so that we might extend our discussions to the technical paper. Thanks for the verifying my objective.Hope to read more of your stuff @jodekss
Hmm! 😍
Keep doing better jobs bro. Rewards will come if they aren't yet as expected. Bravo.
I am a L2 user actually and yes I studied English at the varsity. Thanks for the compliments. Could not help not blushing... 😄
Thanks for your efforts. Much heart sire!
@jodekss
Hi @jodekss
I've seen number of quality curators but your work and your support here is just beyond my immagination.
Cheers :)
Hmmm!
I am just doing my best as promised. Others are doing amazingly too evidently. Maybe it is the ways we do it that is a bit different. 😃
Many thanks @crypto.poitr
As I read more about the NOIA project I begin to see the possibilities it brings to me and the little part of the world I live in. In Africa, We are plagued by poor internet connection services and to make things worse, data servers appear to be very far away from us and so, slow download speeds hence limited accessibility. The decentralization NOIA brings to Content delivery by literally spreading data content to all nooks and crannies of the world properly shuffled with the AI and backed by the blockchain, would improve the internet experience for users in all over the world regardless of the poor internet connection.
Interestingly It aims to reward us all for this.
NOIA network gives us bread and then reward us for eating it, Is this generosity or what!
Personally, I feel NOIA is a solution properly positioned in time, because as Contents improve in size, Some areas of the world would have been left behind.
Thanks NOIA.
Thanks @Machnbirdsparo for the wonderful review.
I disagree.. NOIA is greedy
I jest of course. They want to grow throughout the world and recognize this is the best way to accomplish that goal and sustain it.Being American and near tech hubs all my life, I experience lightning fast connects. But I know from all the chatter how real a problem distant and centralized data servers can be. This combined with my education in aviation, NOIA's solution is inline with the phenomena "tech leap from 3rd to 1st" world economies. That is, aviation and tech go hand in hand so when aviation is required to reach an isolated civilization (where roads are impractical) the people skip second world struggles. Blockchain, and especially projects like NOIA, take this "tech leap" and run with it. We are truly transforming the world beyond just the dissemination of information.
Always enjoy reading your stuff @ced000
Thanks...I enjoy reading yours too although I barely find the time to read anybody's work due to my own failings😟😟
We seriously need that tech leap in my cantry.😏
with you on this one :)
holding fast for the scheduled update next month
BTW, are you a runner O O
A runner?
Nah I'm not sir
Is there an opportunity opened for runners?😏
:(
seemed like one- def the mindset
ops for runners ..haha.. its called "liveable" :)
You made very great point my friend there several countries who needs this solution badly.
Totally agree with you @ced000
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Great article@machnbirdsparo. Very detailed. Although i have to be honest here. It was a little technical for me. Please let me know if I've understood this correctly - let's say YouTube, at present multiple YouTube account connect to multiple centralised regional servers to access content, but with this project, during testnet, there will be a central node to which multiple sub nodes will connect and users will access content through those sub nodes? Eventually even that becomes decentralised? So in a way, file sharing similar to torrents?
If my understanding above is correct, then this is great, because rewarding people to allow their machines to be used as servers is phenomenal, cuts costs for content aggregators and probably makes the experience faster. However, i think I'll wait for you to confirm my understanding, before i go on about how great this sounds.
Thanks @karamyog
I am inclined to say that your illustrative questions are spot on. I also agree with, and have come across other comparisons, of such a system that harnesses devices similar to the way torrents work. BTW, I am excited about a fully decentralized system. I think it will be a paradigm shift in the way the world views (and develops) the flow of digital information.
Hi @machnbirdsparo
Wow, how cool is that. I am very happy that AI is increasingly used in such cases, especially in blockchain projects. It is very good to see these two technologies collaborating with each other.
It is really admirable that NOIA does not try to become fully decentralized and disrupt whole content delivery market immediately. The team understands that such important changes need more time and they want to achieve that in small steps. It shows how experienced they are and we can fully trust them.
There are a few projects in blockchain sphere which aims to create worldwide supercomputer accessible to everyone. The biggest problem of these projects is that real supercomputer is able to communicate and share information with its components very quickly (using a wire). Decentralized supercomputer has to communicate with its nodes using slow internet bandwidth. Imagine what potential NOIA brings to such projects!
Thank you for such an informative article. Obviously resteemed!
Greetings, Jan
@neavvy Your choice of words "communicate and share" - totally agree. NOIA understands how to manage and forecast business operations for innovation. In blockchain, we need these aptitudes in high degree because of all the different projects. Talk about recruiting managerial talent. I believe your are one of the most astute in understanding what is necessary to lead business innovation into the unknown (many follow and buyout bright ideas rather than lead creativity of their own)- you would not happen to be part of the NOIA team :)
Good morning @neavy
Your comments are always blowing my mind. I still can't believe that you're so young. Have you been born with IT book in your hand? :)
Cheers,
Piotr
IKR. It's amazing how young minds, given the chance to start with access to the world and its information through time, turn out. The enemy now is what taints the truth. An immutable digital ledger goes a long, long way to shaping the future of humanity.
Haha, thank you for such kind words @crypto.piotr :)
Greetings, Jan
@neavvy
I was amazed with this one too as it's very new concept what they are doing and they are combining AI and Block chain which is totally out of box thinking.
Team really understand and working great technically & strategically.
Great point my friend.
Thanks for your reply @flash07, I have noticed that you deliver amazing knowledge on your profile and we share similar passions, so I will follow you closely :)
Thank You very much for your kind words @neavvy :)
Already following your profile for long time now :)
The internet is becoming a more media-rich experience and I agree with our current centralised CDN's it may help but its only papering over the cracks. Creating a decentralised node network of CDN's makes sense
As much as like to the potential of what blockchain has for money I think it has far-reaching implications for the future of the internet too. As the internet becomes more centralised via Google & Facebook and access is dictated by ISP's we're sitting in a position where these companies are the gatekeepers to what has become a human right, access to information and of course trade. I think projects like Noia, Golem, Substratum, SIA and Storaj have brought forth ideas and discussions we need to have about net neutrality, how much surveillance we're willing to allow while accessing the internet.
I really like how you present the situation, especially the use of "gatekeepers". Also, thanks for including these five projects. It makes the crypto ventures in this area look a bit like the cloud craze of years ago. However, unlike those days, we know have the tools to create something truly special. And... as a whole, society has allowed tech companies great latitude. My hope is that competition among blockchains bring about a viable, lasting solution for free-thinking, independent minds.
Amazing, I've read the post three times, but I'm still lost on some core concepts. The idea of decentralized internet isn't new of course... but while showing off all the technological benefits of NOIA I fail to see the financial ones. Basically I get paid NOIA tokens by offering some bandwidth and operating as a node offering content?
Nonetheless, I have yet to see a blockchain handle TRUE pressure, all I've seen everywhere are pitiable operations... can NOIA really handle several trillions of transactions per second worldwide? how many tokens need to be created and how can the mining support that? I'm no expert on cryptos, but so far the methods are far from optimal...
The other thing that like always come to mind every time I see a new crypto project is the fact that it's always a pyramid, for good reason, but talking about decentralization while being a pyramid isn't exactly fine on my book. I've seen people owning 90% of the coins and distributing the other 10% so that value adapts to that 10% and then they dump their 90% to cash in profit... who can assure me that won't be the case with NOIA?
Bad blood with cryptos aside I do find it a VERY interesting project that is more than capable of causing a worldwide revolution in how CDN is handled. Yet like with all the cryptos I fear that the cost far surpasses the benefits for the average person.
EDIT: The comment may seem a bit on the sad side or the depressive side or even a full critic... that's not exactly my intention, the post is awesome and the content is great. It's just that I have bad blood with cryptos because I see lots of potential in the technology, but only people wanting to profit abusing it.
No worries about the criticism.
RE: Blockchain handling pressure - still a young technology that is making consistent advancements. All has not yet been solved. NOIA is a piece to the puzzle and its leadership recognizes that the blockchain industry is an open-ended innovation (see Roadmap).
RE: Pyramiding - Cryptos (like the real world) are no where near perfect. As far as pyramid schemes, well, as Andreas Antonopoulos talks about, blockchain will be in a fight before the world has a dominant solution. Some of that 90% market dominance must be attributed to established organizations exerting pressure on the blockchain industry (ie. BTC vs BCH). He goes on to say that a true blockchain is decentralized and those blockchains that are centralized will fail because this is essential to the technology.
Decentralizing cloud networks would supersede the big tech databases. So YES, NOIA is about profiting from the capacity of our own devices. Working toward full decentralized content delivery networks puts people more in charge of their own information. They now have more options to sell that information themselves AND less digital intrusion from unwanted solicitation.
RE: Speed - I can see how this might bring the biggest debate. But consider, America vs the old Soviet Union. We Americans have big cars. Part of the reason is that we have a lot of land, and the other is that we do not need papers to cross state borders. Our interstates highways run unobstructed from the Atlantic to the Pacific. I know, I played touch-and-go with both oceans over the course of three days.
Thanks @ejgarcia for the comments (pos and neg:)
@machnbirdsparo
Just to know more about reward system.
It's great that NOIA combines two revolutionary technology Blockchain and AI. This seriously amazed me and force me to research more on this project.
Thank You for pictorial comparison my friend, it clearly shows that it not only brings us technology advantage but it also less costly then the other networks.
I was aware about CDN technology but CCDN is new for me and great to see it's advantages over CDN. Till now I thought that CDN is the best technology available in market but it looks like I need to update my self after reading about CCDN.
About the test net, I decided to join when I read this amazing article NOIA - An Efficient Content Delivery Infrastructure by @jadams2k18. But at that time my system needed maintenance. All good now, system is ready and after reading your amazing article I am going to use it right away.
Thank You for providing such a great information on NOIA network. After reading this amazing article, I feel like I should research more and more on this project.
Thanks @flash07
Users must obtain tokens.
Maximum rewards would likely be through Master Nodes.
Remember that the system is still evolving. NOIA has long range plans, but here is a quote from the whitepaper about the current reward set up:
Glad to see your so involved. Hope to see you around.
@machnbirdsparo Thank You for your kind reply my friend.
It's only possible because of bloggers like you. You and @jadams2k18 made a great & such a interesting post so anyone will get interested in this project.
Haha, I feel exactly the same @flash07 :)
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With the current rate of ICO scams and theft from the ethereum blockchain even with the load of data being transferred to the blockchain if the noia network is breached a lot of sensitive data can be downloaded and decrypted. As as possible investor how deep is the cold wallet. The smoke and mirror is cool bit I want my data safe and free of data that may cause harm...as I see the web request is in JavaScript. Very concerning.. Anyone else a coder see the issues as well.
Hi @machnbirdsparo, sorry I have been off throughout this week as I have been spending less than 15mins a day on steemit in order to focus and complete some stuffs.
Now, on this amazing article.
How does it achieve this?
Wow! for me, It was very interesting from this sub-heading. I love the stats and comparison as it only created more clarification about the project.
Now, you only described the project without saying what is expected of the public. For example, I love this project, what's next? any ICO? etc?
Man, I must congratulate your presentation. This Q&A method looks perfect!
Thanks @ajongcrypto.
Regarding the first question, I was primarily referring to the initial decentralized-centralized launch and transition to full decentralization next year. More about the future of NOIA, as well as, at a least, a beginning answer to your second question can be found in the Implementation & Roadmap image that I put together at the end of the article.
Hope you find more Steemit time. I am in the same boat.
Ok thanks, I appreciate your response.