August 12, 2008 7:36 PM
Posted by: Tom Nolle
IMS,
Internet,
Peer2Peer,
service delivery platformP2P may be falling on hard times in at least one sense; BitTorrent confirmed a 20% layoff but said the move had nothing to do with the Comcast throttling issue. In some ways it would have been better for the company had Comcast been the culprit, since the FCC has ruled that Comcast can’t strangle...
May 12, 2008 7:08 PM
Posted by: Tom Nolle
IMS,
Peer2PeerA number of developments, especially a rumored suggestion of cooperation among 15 common carriers to produce a P2P-model IMS-competing, voice-over-IP architecture that would be open to developers, suggest that the telco space is shifting its view of the future to accommodate the death of voice as a...
March 28, 2008 1:24 PM
Posted by: Tom Nolle
Comcast,
Peer2Peer,
VerizonComcast today announced it would change how it imposes traffic management constraints on Internet usage, discontinuing its focus on P2P applications and focusing instead on traffic management of “hogs” or users who create the largest amount of traffic. As a practical matter, the move will...
March 27, 2008 12:26 PM
Posted by: Tom Nolle
Comcast,
Peer2Peer,
VerizonComcast and BitTorrent are in talks over how to make P2P exchange less a traffic management problem for cable networks. There has been little detail released on this but the rumor is that Comcast is seeking a “topology-aware” hashing tree so peer uploads from one user on a cable span would...
February 26, 2008 1:23 PM
Posted by: Tom Nolle
Comcast,
FCC,
Peer2PeerComcast and its opponents faced off at an FCC hearing, but little of substance was brought into the open. The positions remain largely as filed in the various briefs; Comcast says that network management is essential for overall service quality and net neutralists say that any constraints will be...
February 19, 2008 3:31 PM
Posted by: Tom Nolle
Broadband,
Peer2Peer,
VerizonVerizon has finally awakened to one of the major weak points in cable broadband services delivered and taken steps to exploit it. A FiOS ad talks about the fact that FiOS delivers not only fast downloads, it delivers uploads 25 times faster than cable, and upload speed was the big problem with...
October 20, 2007 1:32 AM
Posted by: Tom Nolle
Cabling,
IP services,
Peer2PeerComcast has finally admitted to taking steps under its usage agreement to block or interfere with P2P traffic, at least that of BitTorrent. This is perhaps the first instance of a large access provider using their UA this way, but as we have noted before, it is inevitable that access carriers take...
