As P2P applications gain in popularity and degrade network performance, cable broadband operators will need to implement traffic control policies to better manage data capacity consumption.
One option: By tracking usage quotas and partitioning them by application, subscribers not only can elect to pay for what they use, but service providers also can price usage according to the actual value of the application being used.
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