I took some time to actually read Comcast's response to the FCC. In hindsight it does not appear to me that Comcast is trying to capitalize on L3's Netflix deal, rather, wants to be compensated for an emergency installation of 270 Gbps of peering that now has them looking more like a transit customer than a settlement free peer. Jeff On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 9:28 AM, William Allen Simpson <william.allen.simpson@gmail.com> wrote:
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On 12/2/10 12:49 AM, Frank Bulk wrote:
George Ou touches on a similar point at the end of his article:
http://www.digitalsociety.org/2010/11/level-3-outbid-akamai-on-netflix-by-re selling-stolen-bandwidth/
The Ou article makes no sense at all! It's based on the premise that Level 3 and Comcast are peering, and that traffic should be symmetric. Everywhere else, the articles and pundits indicate that Comcast is a transit customer of Level 3.
All actual network operators know that traffic isn't symmetric!
Ou's hit piece reads more like a pseudo-libertarian rant. In fact, other Ou posts listed there have titles that read like an ultra-conservative cum social-conservative rant:
* Wrong On The Internet » Another Net Neutrality ‘violation’ debunked * Why Viacom and others justified in blocking Google TV * Wrong On The Internet » Genachowski pushing ahead with Net Neutrality during lame duck * Google hypocrisy on content blocking * Hijacking the Internet is trivial today
You have to consider the source. If Ou doesn't understand contracts, peering, and/or transit, just take his posts with a grain of salt.
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