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Subject: IP: Cisco offering cable+content cartel discriminatory routers!
>Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 09:28:03 -0800 >To: farber@cis.upenn.edu (Dave Farber), freematt@coil.com (Matthew Gaylor), > State and Local Freedom of Information Issues <FOI-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU> >From: Jim Warren <jwarren@well.com> >Subject: Cisco offering cable+content cartel discriminatory routers! > >If you provide content on the net, or search for or receive content on the >net, and dream of having truly competitive broadband ... this bullet's for you! > >This isn't paranoic rants without substance. It is hard evidence of >PLANNING and INTENT to discriminate against unfavored (competing?) content >providers and users by cable+content cartels such as AOL-TimeWarner and >AT&T-MediaOne. > >This is a smoking gun -- but made visible for all to see, *before* the >trigger is pulled. Only Clinton-Gore's FCC, FTC and DOJ can install a >trigger-lock. > >--jim, Jim Warren; jwarren@well.com >Contributing Editor & technology public-policy columnist, MicroTimes Magazine >Editorial contributor, Government Technology Magazine > > > >At 2:09 AM -0400 7/27/00, James Love wrote: >>CPT comments to July 27, 2000 FCC en banc hearing on AOL/Time Warner >>merger [at the 7/27 FCC hearing] >... > >>2. The Open Access Issue. >> >>... AT&T, Time-Warner and >>other companies are building new differentiated levels of service >>for Internet content, and mechanisms to control and manage >>Internet data. >> >> The cable companies are buying technology from firms like >>Cisco Systems. In its 1999 White paper, "Controlling Your >>Network - A Must for Cable Operators," >>(http://www.cptech.org/ecom/openaccess/cisco1.html) Cisco tells >>cable operators to build a "New World network," to replace "the >>Internet" as it exists today. >> >> The ability to prioritize and control traffic levels is >> a distinguishing factor and critical difference between >> New World networks employing Internet Technologies, and >> "the Internet." >> >>Part of the "New World" architecture is Cisco's Quality of >>Service "QoS" model. According to Cisco: >> >> . . . traffic-type identification allows you to isolate >> different traffic types in your IP network. Through >> Cisco QoS, you can identify each traffic type - Web, >> e-mail, voice, video. Tools such as type-of-service >> (ToS) bits identification allow you to isolate network >> traffic by the type of application, even down to >> specific brands, by the interface used, by the user >> type and individual user identification, or by the site >> address. >> >> Admission control and policing is the way you develop >> and enforce traffic policies. These controls allow you >> to limit the amount of traffic coming into the network >> with policy-based decisions on whether the network can >> support the requirements of an incoming application. >> Additionally, you are able to police or monitor each >> admitted application to ensure that it honors its >> allocated bandwidth reservation. >> >> Preferential queuing gives you the ability to specify >> packet types - Web, e-mail, voice, video - and create >> policies for the way they are prioritized and handled. >> For example, although voice and video traffic are >> intolerant of delays and drops, you still might want to >> ensure that lower-priority residential Web browsing is >> allocated enough bandwidth to deliver an acceptable >> level of service during peak usage. >> >>Among other things, Cisco points out that: >> >> QoS can also propel you forward by giving you the >> information you need to offer advanced differentiated >> services at a profit. For example, time-and usage-based >> billing via NetFlow measurements provide you with a >> means of encouraging (or shifting) demand during >> periods of light network loading by offering off-peak >> discount pricing. >> >>And, with the new levels of service: >> >> [cable companies] can optimize service profits by >> marketing "express" services to premium customers ready >> to pay for superior network performance. >> >> To appreciate the significance of this new approach to >>Internet traffic, consider the Cisco discussion of its Committed >>access rate (CAR) technology, and its use to enhance or diminish >>the performance of content services: >> >> Committed access rate (CAR) is an edge-focused QoS >> mechanism provided by selected Cisco IOS-based network >> devices. The controlled-access rate capabilities of CAR >> allow you to specify the user access speed of any given >> packet by allocating the bandwidth it receives, >> depending on its IP address, application, precedence, >> port, or even Media Access Control (MAC) address. >> >> For example, if a "push" information service that >> delivers frequent broadcasts to its subscribers is seen >> as causing a high amount of undesirable network >> traffic, you can direct CAR to limit subscriber-access >> speed to this service. You could restrict the incoming >> push broadcasts as well as subscribers' outgoing access >> to the push information site to discourage its use. At >> the same time, you could promote and offer your own or >> partner's services with full-speed features to >> encourage adoption of your services, while increasing >> network efficiency. >> >> . . . >> >> Further, you could specify that video coming form >> internal servers receives precedence and broader >> bandwidth over video sourced from external servers. >> >> With CAR, the choice is yours, and it's easy to make >> constant revisions and adjustments as traffic patterns >> shift. >> >> With a plethora of new tools and mechanisms to identify, >>control and discriminate the levels of quality for Internet >>content, cable companies can do to Internet data traffic what >>they have done for years to video content -- pick winners and >>losers, charge different content providers different rates for >>access and exclude rivals. >... ><snip> > >> TACD Resolution Ecom 17-00 >> Merger of America Online and Time Warner and Privacy Protection >> >> see: http://www.tacd.org/ecommercef.html#aolmerge >> >> >>======================================================= >>James Love, Director | http://www.cptech.org >>Consumer Project on Technology | mailto:love@cptech.org >>P.O. Box 19367 | voice: 1.202.387.8030 >>Washington, DC 20036 | fax: 1.202.234.5176 >>======================================================= >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Info-policy-notes mailing list >>Info-policy-notes@lists.essential.org >>http://lists.essential.org/mailman/listinfo/info-policy-notes >
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