How iPhone and Android Are Changing the Network

“The iPhone is doing to the mobile world, what the browser did to the wireline world,” said Pradeep Sindhu, co-founder of Juniper Networks.

The iPhone and Android-based smartphones are changing everything, including how his company thinks about network infrastructure and how it will refine the network architecture in the future. Many who are developing apps and services for mobile devices don't pay much attention to the innards of the networks themselves, barring moments when our network behaves like me running up a hill. We should be paying attention to all the underlying networking technologies, mostly because it helps us think about what these front-end services can do. Sindhu explains that today the “networks” are the enabling technology, instead of super fast, energy hogging microprocessors. As the performance of the network increases, so does the performance of everything connected to that network, and by extension, the apps built on those device platform.