"It's taking the intelligence away from centralised control and letting the devices make decisions on near-real-time events," says its business development general manager, Brad Affleck.
Some of the questions that many people kept asking were 'how many pages are on the web?' and 'how many pages are there in each language?' Those data do not exist because there is no centralised unit - a web central intelligence unit of sorts.
Now, if this statement does indeed mark the birth of a larger, centralised organisation, the security services can focus their intelligence gathering efforts on a much smaller number of senior figures.
Schmidt, by explaining the issues around Threat Intelligence, starts to paint a familiar picture of centralised, capitalist data encapsulation, something that really gets in the way of what Threat Intelligence could be achieving - which is a 'us vs them'.
But intelligence obtained by the US suggested that some of al-Qaida's activities, particularly bomb-making, had become more centralised and therefore "potentially more efficient and sophisticated".
Only the centralised party organisations.
It envisages a centralised state.
But whereas innovation in the power network of the past big, centralised and regulated was slow, in the new, decentralised grid of the future it will move ever faster.The fourth part of the circle is intelligence.
The intelligence and the control of the network operation and management, such as routing, are removed from the forwarding elements (switches) and are concentrated in a logically centralised component, i.e. the SDN controller.
Its centralised system of control stifles innovation.
