Re: U.S. Finance Sector Weighs In on Net Neutrality

[Kevin McAleavey <kevinmca () nsclean com>]

 You forgot Al Gore! Doesn't he still get a piece?    :)

 But yeah, pretty much summed it up ... it's all about "PEERING" which has raised its ugly head numerous times over the 
past years. For anyone who actually HAS spare time these days, google "internet peering battles" ... ain't news at all 
... merely a "resurrection."  

At 03:47 PM 5/3/06, Dude VanWinkle wrote:
> So the internet is really made up of:
>
> 360networks
> AboveNet
> AT&T
> Btnaccess
> Bell Canada
> BellSouth
> Broadwing
> Cogent
> Electric Lightwave
> Fiber Network Solutions
> Global Crossing
> GlobalNAPs
> Globix
> GT (Canada)
> IDT Corporation
> Level 3
> McLeodUSA
> Multacom
> Mzima
> Netifice
> Oxford Networks
> PPL Telcom
> Quest (Asia)
> Qwest Comm.
> SAVVIS
> Sprint Wholesale
> Telcove
> Teleglobe (VSNL)
> TeliaSonera
> Telstra Inc. (Asia, USA)
> Time Warner Telecom
> Verio (NTT)
> Verizon Business
> WilTel (Williams Comm.)
> XO Comm.
> Xspedius
>
> So comcast sells client access to the pipe they lease from Quest. This
> connection would not be messed with, however if Google has a pipe on
> Telstra, they may rate limit packets from Quest to Google in order to
> force google to pay more bucks.
>
> Is that right? does it matter if google leases a pipe from Quest
> rather than Telstra?
>
> What to stop ISPx from not rate limiting at all and getting the big
> content providers (google) to switch to their networks, as well as the
> big end user bandwidth resellers (comcast)?
>
> Will wireless technologies save us from the ISP's and this is just
> their death throes (remember the price of Kodak film just before the
> digital camera?)?
>
>
> -JP<who is still confused, but maybe less so>
>
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