All that is set to change with the advent of carrier-class Ethernet services and transport. Ethernet has seen off all competitors in companies' local area networks (LANs) - with the exception of fibre channel - and is now poised to extend into the...
Any 'latency' - the delay in delivering the voice stream from the speaker to the listener - degrades the quality of the sound as does 'jitter' and 'packet loss'. On private networks - LAN, WAN or in the carrier's core - application performance can...
For their part, major broadband providers have repeatedly pledged not to block traffic or censor websites. those companies have been spending millions of dollars to lobby for stiff new laws prohibiting broadband providers from rolling out two-tier...
They actually want to charge the profitable service providers for generating net traffic and users for consuming bits. In the US for example we have telcos trying to carve up the net traffic so they can charge a premium rate for heavy users.
As this kind of architecture is often built to be tolerant of high latency and lost packets, nobody is aware of issues until the network is subjected to new stresses. What Skype calls do provide is a voice service over bandwidth that is much...
Despite its comments, Tiscali says it would not target iPlayer content for traffic shaping - possibly as it can't distinguish iPlayer content from other BBC traffic - but the issue is something the company is concerned about.