What
started out as suspicion is now fully documented, in a study that has
just been released by a nonprofit research consortium called M-Lab.
M-Lab’s data suggests the logical conclusion that Verizon and Comcast,
as well as Time Warner Cable, CenturyLink, and AT&T, are
intentionally squeezing data coming from some incoming networks — in
particular, networks associated with Netflix, which competes with these
companies in video entertainment. Customers of these eyeball networks
are getting degraded service that cannot be explained by anything other
than business decisions. And these eyeball networks are acting with an
apparent disregard for users not affiliated with Netflix, affecting all
kinds of traffic and all kinds of users. By tacitly allowing network
traffic jams — affecting only the highways of fiber that Netflix was
using to send its bits — everyone else using those routes was getting
stuck.
No comments:
Post a Comment