is this like a peering war somehow?

Fri Jan 20 12:54:34 UTC 2006

On Fri, 20 Jan 2006, Alexander Harrowell wrote:

> Whatever. No-one's actually trying to do "some packets are more equal 
> than others" here in Europe, except for the mobile people with IMS and 
> such. BT just transferred its access network into a new division with a 
> specific remit to provide open access to all ISPs and alt- tels who want 
> it.

My guess would be that basically everybody doing triple play will 
prioritize the IPTV and VoIP packets in their network including the 
access. Considering that streaming UDP IPTV requires very very low packet 
loss, much better than Best Effort, this is needed to provide a good 
quality service.

If you do LLQ you want to make sure you can control what goes into that 
class, that can be done several ways, including disallowing anything 
you don't know about (transit/ix) to go there.

This is preferential treatment for some packets and it makes perfect 
technological sense.

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se