a research fellow in August 2006.

In January 2006 at Linux.conf.au, Jacobson presented another idea about network performance improvement, which has since been referred to as network channels. Jacobson discussed his ideas on Named data networking (NDN), the focus of his work at PARC, in August 2006 as part of the Google Tech Talks. Jacobson is now working with the NDN Consortium funded by the National Science Foundation