By: Jeff Turner

Jeff Turner — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 00:06:58 +0000

I don’t understand how BT’s offering is not some form of what the FCC might call “paid prioritization” — just like Level 3 stated Comcast was doing with its “paid peering” solution. If you congest the upstream network and then use “smart routing” to relieve that congestion for your own service, you are in essence creating a “two tier” broadband network. It is time for the ISPs to state it like it is and stop dallying around the frantic and irrational net neutrality proponents. The Internet needs “FedEx” for video. Let’s applaud BT for taking a step in the right direction. The next great step will be when all these ISPs begin federating their CDN offerings…

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By: Jeff Turner