Oracle And Cisco Both Support The FCC's Rollback Of Net Neutrality (thehill.com)

An anonymous reader quotes The Hill: Oracle voiced support on Friday for FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's controversial plan to roll back the agency's net neutrality rules. In a letter addressed to the FCC, the company played up its "perspective as a Silicon Valley technology company," hammering the debate over the rules as a "highly political hyperbolic battle," that is "removed from technical, economic, and consumer reality"... Oracle wrote in their letter [PDF] that they believe Pai's plan to remove broadband providers from the FCC's regulatory jurisdiction "will eliminate unnecessary burdens on, and competitive imbalances for, ISPs [internet service providers] while enhancing the consumer experience and driving investment"... Other companies in support of Pai's plan, like AT&T and Verizon, have made the argument that the rules stifled investment in the telecommunications sector, specifically in broadband infrastructure.
Cisco has also argued that strict net neutrality laws on ISPs "restrict their ability to use innovative network management technology, provide appropriate levels of quality of service, and deliver new features and services to meet evolving consumer needs. Cisco believes that allowing the development of differentiated broadband products, with different service and content offerings, will enhance the broadband market for consumers."

Comments

duh

[viperidaenz]

Oracle and Cisco want to sell hardware and services to the ISP's to manage their traffic prioritization

Re:duh

[Anonymous Coward]

Came here's just to say that... Cisco is going to make a ton of money selling "quality of service" network upgrades to ISPs. Oracle is going to make a ton of money selling user tracking databases. These companies are the entrenched "industry standards" they make bank when GIANT companies do good.. startups can't afford them, and aren't their customers so screw them.

Re:duh

[Dog-Cow]

You are so incredibly naive that you would probably also believe Larry if he announced that he was removing all license fees for the Oracle DB.

I don't know what Oracle's angle is, but Larry doesn't support anything that doesn't add to his wealth.

Cisco's angle is obvious. They want to sell DPI, and other, hardware, which will require constant upgrades and service to keep up with demands. Dumb routers are practically commodity these days.

Right.

[nightfire-unique]

Let us, the engineers, technologists, and supporters of the Internet remember this, and use this knowledge when choosing network and database vendors.

Re:Double Duh

[TheRaven64]

I don't know if you're a shill or simply uninformed, but you seem to be repeating the erroneous line that network neutrality prevents QoS. It is completely acceptable under network neutrality, for example, to put SIP traffic in queues with shorter or more deterministic latency. It's even permitted to charge the customer more for doing this. What is not permitted is only putting SIP traffic to the ISP's own VoIP service in a low-latency queue and putting everyone else's SIP traffic in a normal queue. It is not permitted to charge Microsoft money to prioritise Skype traffic, at the expense of other VoIP traffic. It is not permitted to penalise Netflix traffic unless Netflix pays extra to reach your customers. Which one of these do you think would be in the consumers' interest?