Re: ISPs slowing P2P traffic...

[Mark Radabaugh <mark () amplex net>]

> P2P based CDN's are a current buzzword; Verilan even has a white paper 
> on it
>
> https://www.verisign.com/cgi-bin/clearsales_cgi/leadgen.htm?form_id=9653&toc=e20050314159653020&ra=72.219.222.192&email= 
Password protected link.
> I think we are going to see a lot more of this, and not just from "kids."
>
> Regards
> Marshall
This should prove to be interesting.   The Video CDN model will be a 
threat to far more operators than P2P has been to the music industry.

Cable companies make significant revenue from video content (ok - that 
was obvious).    Since they are also IP Network operators they have a 
vested interest in seeing that video CDN's  that bypass their primary 
revenue stream fail.    The ILEC's are building out fiber mostly so that 
they can compete with the cable companies with a triple play solution.   
I can't see them being particularly supportive of this either.  As a 
wireless network operator I'm not terribly interested in helping 3rd 
parties that cause issue on my network with upload traffic (rant away 
about how were getting paid by the end user to carry this traffic...).

Mark