[snip]
in an article by Jeff Chester (1 feb 06) titled Hijacking the Internet
- "How Big
Cable and Phone Companies Plans for Broadband Threaten Democracy", a
plan to stop the proliferation of affordable access and fair
competition in the
internet world is identified. Cisco already being a major player with
technology
to limit, meter or otherwise restrict the QOS we all enjoy.
...Cisco and others (such as Allot Communications) warn cable and phone
companies about the need to "limit unprofitable peer-to-peer
communications"
or even ban them. Among the applications mentioned for such treatment
including
BitTorrent, Gnuetella, and Kazaa. One can tell a lot about the
intended role of
these packet-inspection products by their names: "SmartFlow,"
"NetEnforcer," "NetPure," "NetRedirector," and "IP Control System."
[snip]
Anyhow layer 7 packet analyzing isn't cheap at times and can pretty
easily be circumvented if you know how to mangle the packet. We use
this to ensure QOS on some of our applications. If it ever does become
an issue of an ISP being really stupid.. Different ports, tunnels and
changed packet headers would keep them pretty busy. I think their
overall ROI on something like this just wouldn't add up, but let them
try it'd at the very least be a fun game of cat and mouse.
If anyone remembers how MSN and Yahoo didn't want anyone using third
party applications to connect to their messenger service years ago..
Then developers had to spoof client types and update protocols.. I'm
sure it would unfold in a similar fashion.. They update.. we update..
and so on.. In the end though they gave up. Consumers will win, because
the providers won't unit and if they do, competition will capitalize.
Have a great weekend everyone!
C.
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