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To: TimF who wrote (13037)	1/19/2006 8:16:13 PM
From: tech101	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 46821

I have been saying Network Neutrality actually means “Access Neutrality” -- again and again. Cable or FTTH/FTTN can offer 10 mbps – 100 mbps effortlessly TODAY. Who needs QoS for the First/Last Mile? An ISP only needs to charge its customers a flat access fee based on the bandwidth they need (5, 10, 25, 100 mbps, for example), but not control what they can access based on whether an content owner pays an extra QoS fee. Setting a tollbooth at the gate and charging extra for QoS at the First/Last Mile is just an excuse for discrimination by ISP. It is a different story, however, for the backbone. Content owners and web-hosting/co-lo customers already are paying based on their needs for bandwidth and the size of the pipes their application servers use. A VoD server that can handle 1000 simultaneous views has to pay somewhere around $10,000/month or more for a GigE pipe. The Internet will experience immediate traffic jam and be choked right away if only 10-20% our population starts watching TV via Internet. There have to be some kind of QoS mechanism to be implemented for critical applications. Broadwing (BWNG) owns the only nation-wide DTM (Dynamic Transfer Mode) network with hardened 100% QoS and near-zero latency - particularly designed for the extremely demanding applications such as sports HDTV distribution. Could we expect Broadwing charges their DTM network customers at the same rate as the 20 years old AT&T legacy network? Tech101