The Internet is becoming increasingly pervasive in today's and future society.

Much effort is being made to reduce the real-time constraints of the original Internet by taking advantage of some aspects:

Multi-cast - developed for distributing the same data to an extended group

Delay contraints - packets that do not arrive in time are skipped

Preferential routes - helps in keeping transmission delays under control

Larger Bandwidths - most current example is low earth orbit satellites to establish worldwide data comunications networks

Extensions to  the Internet Protocol - work is being done to improve protocols, which include guaranteeing a pre-determine
bandwidth