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Server hosting companies like OVH maintain their own lines or earmarked-guaranteed bandwidth shared-lines (I imagine the intercontinental ones) between their da

by cordite 12y ago

Server hosting companies like OVH maintain their own lines or earmarked-guaranteed bandwidth shared-lines (I imagine the intercontinental ones) between their data centers. It may not be practical for hospitals and other real time needs based organizations to maintain their own physical limes, but isn't this the point where such an organization directly makes a business contract with a near backbone provider like level3? If you need guarantees, I really doubt civilian or home consumer ISPs will fill the need. If congestion is a problem so packets are unfavorably delayed or dropped, shouldn't that mean those which need greater guarantees provision their communication assets accordingly? Traders in Chicago and New York are coming up with their own solutions, be it more direct and dedicated fiber optic lines or even direct to direct chained microwave line-of-sight towers. Net neutrality or not, they need greater guarantees than offered to home consumers or small businesses, and I doubt most ISPs can provide such guarantees with our infrastructure.

the8472 12y ago
I suspect the first neutrino-based communications system will be used for trading.
GauntletWizard 12y ago
Guaranteed bandwidth shared lines are a violation of net neutrality. Tell me how this differs from having a Priority Lane that's reserved for Comcast's real-time video streams. Tell lawmakers how to write laws that differentiate them, even when cable companies are playing word and classification games. Net Neutrality is a far more complex issue than Title II regulation in the US. Title II is a good first step, but will bring with it many problems, that we'll soon have to deal with.
- cordite 12y ago
  Perhaps what I am thinking of is predetermined point-to-point networking. Though creating a ring or a rigid mesh on top of that for such networks seems to create the whole segregated network problem again. Perhaps I feel like point-to-point (rather than classification to any receiver) could be treated differently.
- AnthonyMouse 12y ago
  > Guaranteed bandwidth shared lines are a violation of net neutrality. Tell me how this differs from having a Priority Lane that's reserved for Comcast's real-time video streams. Tell lawmakers how to write laws that differentiate them, even when cable companies are playing word and classification games. The solution for this is quite simple. The customer can buy whatever performance and quality of service they like, but it applies to all the customer's traffic, to any transit peer up to and through the peering point.
- leereeves 12y ago
  > Guaranteed bandwidth shared lines are a violation of net neutrality. Perhaps of an poorly written net neutrality law. But can you predict what will be a violation of net neutrality before the laws are written and the courts interpret them? It's certainly a complex issue, requiring deep understanding of the Internet. I support it in principle, but have little faith that any government will handle it well.

by cordite 12y ago

the8472 12y ago

I suspect the first neutrino-based communications system will be used for trading.

GauntletWizard 12y ago

Guaranteed bandwidth shared lines are a violation of net neutrality. Tell me how this differs from having a Priority Lane that's reserved for Comcast's real-time video streams. Tell lawmakers how to write laws that differentiate them, even when cable companies are playing word and classification games. Net Neutrality is a far more complex issue than Title II regulation in the US. Title II is a good first step, but will bring with it many problems, that we'll soon have to deal with.

cordite 12y ago
Perhaps what I am thinking of is predetermined point-to-point networking. Though creating a ring or a rigid mesh on top of that for such networks seems to create the whole segregated network problem again. Perhaps I feel like point-to-point (rather than classification to any receiver) could be treated differently.
AnthonyMouse 12y ago
> Guaranteed bandwidth shared lines are a violation of net neutrality. Tell me how this differs from having a Priority Lane that's reserved for Comcast's real-time video streams. Tell lawmakers how to write laws that differentiate them, even when cable companies are playing word and classification games. The solution for this is quite simple. The customer can buy whatever performance and quality of service they like, but it applies to all the customer's traffic, to any transit peer up to and through the peering point.
leereeves 12y ago
> Guaranteed bandwidth shared lines are a violation of net neutrality. Perhaps of an poorly written net neutrality law. But can you predict what will be a violation of net neutrality before the laws are written and the courts interpret them? It's certainly a complex issue, requiring deep understanding of the Internet. I support it in principle, but have little faith that any government will handle it well.