Just like the telco reform act killed investemnt in the network, net neutrality will do the same.
If a provider can sell more traffic with more profit they will build the backbone to support it. With everyone paying the same, profit goes down and investment goes down too.
Remember what happened to Lucent when growth was killed in the pots network...
There are even old analog relay driven switches still around beacuse of the telco reform act! These are Lucent 1Aess switches that had been slated for upgrade to 5ess 10 years ago!
It seems to me (optimist that I am) that this could simply be a proposal to allow the Telcos to take the huge bandwidth they currently have locked up for SONET, DWDM, etc. currently used for private data, video, and voice services and open it up for use by anyone using an IP based transport.
Of course they want to be able to make a return on this expensive infrastructure. Without a means to get a return on their investment, it isn't going to happen.
We need to assure basic services are widely and cheaply available, a universal services function for the Internet. But if we want the infrastructure to grow and support next generation services we have to provide some means to get a return on the investment.
Right now there are still analog relay driven telephone switches in reasonable large markets because the telecommunications act removed the ability fr incumbent telcos to get a return. We don't want to remove the incentive to grow the IP network we have all become so dependent on as well!
This is not a proposal to make some web sites slower, in fact it appears they will actually be providing a basic performance guarantee that doesn't even exist today.
This is an opportunity to have applications and websites that want/need better performance to provide the investment necessary to improve the network with a guaranteed higher quality of service.
This is great news for applications and services hat dont work well today because of core bottlenecks such as VoIP and IPTV.
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Just like the telco reform act killed investemnt in the network, net neutrality will do the same. If a provider can sell more traffic with more profit they will build the backbone to support it. With everyone paying the same, profit goes down and investment goes down too. Remember what happened to Lucent when growth was killed in the pots network... There are even old analog relay driven switches still around beacuse of the telco reform act! These are Lucent 1Aess switches that had been slated for upgrade to 5ess 10 years ago!
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It seems to me (optimist that I am) that this could simply be a proposal to allow the Telcos to take the huge bandwidth they currently have locked up for SONET, DWDM, etc. currently used for private data, video, and voice services and open it up for use by anyone using an IP based transport. Of course they want to be able to make a return on this expensive infrastructure. Without a means to get a return on their investment, it isn't going to happen. We need to assure basic services are widely and cheaply available, a universal services function for the Internet. But if we want the infrastructure to grow and support next generation services we have to provide some means to get a return on the investment. Right now there are still analog relay driven telephone switches in reasonable large markets because the telecommunications act removed the ability fr incumbent telcos to get a return. We don't want to remove the incentive to grow the IP network we have all become so dependent on as well!
This is not a proposal to make some web sites slower, in fact it appears they will actually be providing a basic performance guarantee that doesn't even exist today. This is an opportunity to have applications and websites that want/need better performance to provide the investment necessary to improve the network with a guaranteed higher quality of service. This is great news for applications and services hat dont work well today because of core bottlenecks such as VoIP and IPTV.
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