Two Tiered Internet

Wed Dec 14 03:12:31 UTC 2005

Sean,

I think you are skirting the real issue here.

Prioritizing traffic in order to provide reliable transport for isochronous
services is one thing; Using QoS features to de-prioritize traffic from a
competitor or a company who refuses to pay to access your customers is
something completely different.

These are not just paranoid ravings from the tin-foil brigades: two telecom
CEO's have recently floated trial balloons proposing exactly this scenario.

What good is 6Mbit DSL from my ISP (say, SBC for example) if only a small
portion of the net (sites that pay for non-degraded access) loads at a
reasonable speed and everything else sucks?

Joe

On 12/13/05 12:26 PM, "Sean Donelan" <sean at donelan.com> wrote:

> 
> On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Blaine Christian wrote:
>> http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2005/12/13/
>> telecoms_want_their_products_to_travel_on_a_faster_internet/
>> 
>> My commentary is reserved at this point...  but, it does make me
>> shudder.
> 
> Comcast has been advertising in press releases it gives priority to its
> voice traffic over its network for a while.
> 
> http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/12-12-2
> 005/0004231957&EDATE=
> 
> Unlike traditional Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) offerings that
> run on the public Internet, Comcast Digital Voice calls originate and
> travel over Comcast's advanced, proprietary managed network.  Because
> Comcast Digital Voice is a managed service, Comcast can make sure that
> customer calls get priority handling.
> 

> 

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