Re: "Network Neutrality Squad": Users Protecting an Open and Fair Internet

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Armando Stettner <aps () ieee org>
Date: November 7, 2007 12:39:03 AM EST
To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Cc: "ip () v2 listbox com" <ip () v2 listbox com>
Subject: Re: [IP] Re:   "Network Neutrality Squad": Users Protecting  
an Open and Fair Internet

I would normally remain silent on such topics.  But, i can't.

MoCA (Multimedia over Cable) is a communications path. Verizon uses it  
to enable IP comunications to and from what are otherwise normal  
'cable' set top boxes.  MiCA was chosen to enable IP STB's because  
installing reliable Ethernet in houses was much more expensive than  
utilizing the cable that was already pervasive in US houses.

In FiOS, VOD and multi-room DVR (where an STB can be a video 'client'  
of a DVR STB) content is carried via IP over that MoCA channel as is  
the Internet 'service' data between the light-terminating-equipment on  
the side of the house and a customer data access device that Verizon  
calls the broadband home routers (BHR).

I would not attach such sinister or insidious motives to the use of  
MoCA.

   armando


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