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NY Times: Better Networks: Look

NY Times: Better Networks: Look to Nature Over the ensuing decades, as the Internet turned from an academic and military tool into a mass medium, only the efficiencies of packet switching have enabled it to meet demand. Even so, as any Web user or e-mail correspondent can attest, traffic can still be congested and unpredictable. Now ideas for advances in data routing are beginning to emerge from a surprisingly simple model: the ant.

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