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@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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