Sandvine Fuels New Comcast System New motto: Helping cable giants put 'hogs' on special 'bus' since 2008...
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Sandvine-Fuels-New-Comcast-System-97941 Yesterday we examined Comcast's new traffic management system, which degrades service for high-consumption users. Regular users will see "Priority Best-Effort" (PBE) service, while users who consume more than 70% of their allotted capacity for more than fifteen minutes will be placed into a "Best Effort" (BE) service tier -- until they're cured of their wicked, high-consumption ways. Last month we had speculated that this new system was simply a software update to existing Sandvine gear already in place, and this week Sandvine announced as much: Comcast Corporation, the nation’s leading provider of entertainment, information and communications, has selected Sandvine’s Congestion Management for Fairshare solution. Comcast’s selection of the solution was documented in certain recent filings made by Comcast with the Federal Communications Commission. Terms of the agreement have not yet been finalized but Sandvine anticipates that commercial deployment of the product will commence sometime in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2008. A nationwide deployment of Sandvine's latest solution should help the company, who saw their stock take a nosedive during the most recent network neutrality brouhaha. As Comcast's latest filing indicates, having your service placed on the special "BE" bandwidth glutton bus "may or may not result in the user’s traffic being delayed or, in extreme cases, dropped before PBE traffic is dropped." ******************************* * POST TO [EMAIL PROTECTED] * ******************************* Medianews mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.etskywarn.net/mailman/listinfo/medianews
