Re: Two Tiered Internet

[Alexander Harrowell <a.harrowell () gmail com>]

The whole QoS/2 tier Internet thing I find deeply, deeply suspicious...here
in the mobile space, everyone is getting obsessed by IMS (IP Multimedia
Subsystem) and explaining to each other that they need it so they can offer
"Better QoS, like the subscribers want". What they really mean, I suspect,
is killing third party applications that compete with their own. IMS=I Mash
Skype. And, I suspect, "QoS" for SBC customer broadband will mean "the speed
we advertise so long as you are paying us for VoIP/video/whatever, shite if
you aren't".



On 12/15/05, Hannigan, Martin <hannigan () verisign com> wrote:
> [ SNIP ]
>
> > This is not directed at Sean, but please -- as a fomer Cisco
> > engineering flunky, I can distinguish between marketing fluff
> > (even when disguised as a 'case study') and real figures, and
> > the truth is, there are no figures, because there is dismal
> > adoption of the services. Go figure. Whatever.
>
> Sean recently joined Cisco marketing hence the quoting of
> vendor cruft as policy. It would be nice to fess up to that
> with an @cisco or at least an "I work for Cisco Marketing"
> disclaimer.
>
> -M<