I'll avoid replying to ad-hominem attacks. On Sun, 19 Mar 2006, Ruben Safir wrote:
> homes, and that uses Verizon. Your PTP connection to Queens uses > Verizon lines for that matter (unless 55 Broad has suddenly grown to > Twin Tower size). Welcome to state of wireless in 2006. We are running Orthogon Systems radios, and we get ~50mbps across ~15 miles with LoS partially obstructed by trees on the Queens side, and fresnel zone partially obstructed by buildings on Manhattan side. (Yes, we do have roof rights in 55 Broad). > So how does what your saying have anything to do with the current > discussion, or the side discussion of your dependence on Verizon for > your business. It does. We try our best to have our own network that is independent of anyone. We've spent $$$$$ to get roof rights and buy orthogon radios vs buying a DS3 circuit from VZ for exactly that reason. We are paying $$$$$ for the build/splicing/IRUs on the dark fiber connecting buildings that we are in for exactly that reason. We want to own our network. Why do we want to own our network? To provide better quality of service. That doesn't just mean "QoS" in IP sense. It means that when we are responsible for a circuit end-to-end, we can do much more than any other ISP. We can provide better "QoS" because we control every point on the network, and we can prioritize traffic accordingly. It also means better service - on these circuits, you won't get the "oh, we'll open ticket with verizon" - circuit is ours. Most obviously, we use the fact that it is our circuit to provide guaranteed QoS to our VoIP products, if customer chooses to buy that. Now, if the "network neutrality" means we cannot (as a common carrier) prioritize certain packets over others, it is simply ridiculous. > All those clients now use you as a common carrier. They already have > legal rights and protections. The Network Neutrality bills floating > around, proposed by those communists at Google, are intended to just > strengthen those rights and prevetn someone like you using their common > carrier status to interfere with public commerce. Of course, they have certain rights - as common carrier, we can't sniff the traffic (except as permitted by law), etc. Laws of unfair competition would prevent us from tampering with/obstructing our competitor's traffic. So, what exactly do network neutrality bills would do? "Strengthen" what? Devil's in details. Given the fact that NYCWireless historically supports the more extreme positions, I find it important to emphasize that not all "Neutrality" is a good thing. -alex -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
