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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" <[email protected]> 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. > > -- Joe McGuckin ViaNet Communications 994 San Antonio Road Palo Alto, CA 94303 Phone: 650-213-1302 Cell: 650-207-0372 Fax: 650-969-2124
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