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diff --git a/content/_index.md b/content/_index.md index 9ac7681..b635592 100644 --- a/content/_index.md +++ b/content/_index.md @@ -1,16 +1,18 @@ --- -title: "A decentralized packet network" +title: "The first completely decentralized packet network" --- -Ouroboros is a peer-to-peer transport network built on a new recursive -network paradigm following a UNIX design philosphy. The aim is to -provide a secure and private networking experience and simplify -writing distributed software and networking libraries. +Ouroboros is a __peer-to-peer transport network__ built on a new +__recursive network paradigm__ built according to a __UNIX design +philosphy__. The aim is to provide a __secure__ and __private__ +networking experience and __simplify writing distributed software__ +and networking libraries. It provides a __very simple API__, enabling +__unicast__ and __multicast__ services. -Ouroboros is compatible with TCP/IP and can be overlayed over UDP and -Ethernet. IP applications can be tunneled over Ouroboros. Ouroboros -provides its own name resolution, reliability mechanisms, routing -algorithms, and (soon) congestion control. +Ouroboros can be __overlayed over UDP and Ethernet__. IP applications +can be tunneled over Ouroboros. Ouroboros provides its own name +resolution, reliability mechanisms, routing algorithms, and congestion +control. Ouroboros was originally started at [imec](www.imec-int.com) under its Future Internet research, and is [free |