Entropy Gradient Reversals - The Rise of the Stupid Network: "the Intelligent Network was a telephone company attempt to engineer vendor independence, more automatic operation, and some 'intelligent' new services into existing network architecture. However, even as it rolls out and matures, the Intelligent Network is being superseded by a Stupid Network,
with nothing but dumb transport in the middle, and intelligent user-controlled endpoints,
whose design is guided by plenty, not scarcity,
where transport is guided by the needs of the data, not the design assumptions of the network. "