On 08 Nov 2005 10:31:38 -0500, jonc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 09:59, Ryan Leathers wrote: > > Hmmmm... I'm surprised if Time Warner is doing something other than > > DOCSIS 1.1 which has all the good stuff you need to support stuff like > > VoIP with aplomb. Now, if you are doing VoIP over the service without > > using these features then I'd fully expect you to get sketchy > > performance now and then. > > > Your comment is spot on. The problem is that TW will only allow TW > "products" (like their Digital Phone) access to the good stuff. They > don't allow other folks to peak beyond the veil of their cable modems. > It's a business decision - not a technological one.
There have been some disturbances in the force* lately with big ISPs starting to talk like RIAA and MPAA thinking that they have an overreaching right to control the folks who use "their" internet. One aspect of this is trying to grab control of services like VOIP on "their" networks. I can't recall who, but one of the heads of a large ISP was recently making public statements about trying to get businesses like google to pay them for the bandwidth. Seems like the cart is before the horse on that one since google and others are the ones who are driving the demand for bandwidth. By analogy, how common is it in the cable/satellite tv industry for the content providers to pay the carriers vs. money flowing in the other direction? It seems to me that we're in for a battle of business models. -- Rick DeNatale Visit the Project Mercury Wiki Site http://www.mercuryspacecraft.com/ -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
