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Re: Comcast traffic shaping enhancements
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:20:21 -0700
________________________________________ From: Bob Frankston [bob37-2 () bobf frankston com] Sent: Friday, March 28, 2008 10:49 AM To: David Farber; 'ip' Cc: nnsquad () nnsquad org Subject: RE: [IP] Comcast traffic shaping enhancements This reminds of QoS in trying to find a solution for a particular mode of usage within a given network capacity. What is missing is any hint of increasing capacity and that may be a serious limitation in Comcast's view of the world. It's acting as if Bit Torrent is the problem rather than being a symptom of the inability to second-guess application needs. -----Original Message----- From: David Farber [mailto:dave () farber net] Sent: Friday, March 28, 2008 08:24 To: ip Subject: [IP] Comcast traffic shaping enhancements ________________________________________ From: Richard Bennett [richard () bennett com] Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 6:47 PM To: David Farber Subject: Comcast traffic shaping enhancements Dave - For IP if you wish. I talked to Comcast's CTO, Tony Werner, on the enhancements to their traffic shaping system they announced today. In a nutshell, they're going to stop application-centric RST injection, and use the scheduling mechanism in the DOCSIS CMTS instead. I've done a blog post on it: http://bennett.com/blog/index.php/archives/2008/03/27/new-and-improved-traff ic-shaping/ IETF purists should rejoice, of course. Cheers, RB -- Richard Bennett ------------------------------------------- Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ------------------------------------------- Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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