It seems that IPTIVIA CEO has joined another firm called Arbitron and the http://www.iptivia.com website is down. Can you please find out more about IPTIVIA ?

Regards
Anil

I want the best of both. Infinite bandwidth stinks if the cumulative latency of today’s complex web pages (with all kinds of embedded and distributed site connections)degrades the interactive experience.

Latency is less egregious for streaming and file delivery. So there you go, we have other problems besides just dropped packets.

There was a time when actual, technical and processing degradation caused dropped packets and early streaming delivery and reliability problems. This is, overall, not really the case nowadays.

In the USA at least, for Broadband users, we have great end-to-end connections where packet loss is almost always a deterministic decision – i.e., network operators and router choke points between peers are configured to allocate a certain amount of and type of connection traffic.

THis all came way before net neutrality debate, because the issues is not dynamic or per application throttling, it is static configuration controlled by statistical models of how many packets to throw away, who will you piss off, etc.

The lower on the net food chain you can rob from, as in life an white collar crime, the less complaints you will receive.

The bandwidth providers at the last mile can buy their way to high capacity happiness and low latency for the happy internet video future (Verizon FIOS) that is sure to be a powerful draw for the young, who will be a video and file transfer powerhouse. Or they are already.

But then there’s mobile, right? How long will terrestrial broadband survive in a world where newly maturing super tech users increasingly see
their mobile device as their primary device?