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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: is this like a peering war somehow?
On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 13:54:34 +0100 (CET), "Mikael Abrahamsson" <[email protected]> said: > > 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. I'm sorry if I made the impression that it is already happening. Now it's a game on the political arena, and it's important to support the RIR-communities' efforts to provide balanced information to decision-makers. > > 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. Preferential treatment of value-added services in the providers own network is just fine. It's down-prioritizing competing services that may become a problem. Like blocking all VoIP traffic not using the providers' own "gateway-service". //per -- Per Heldal http://heldal.eml.cc/
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