Da-Chief
05-19-2008, 09:10
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Sandvine Corporation (http://www.sandvine.com/), whose traffic shaping hardware sits at the heart of the current Comcast P2P throttling controversy (http://www.corpsman.com/shownews/91822), was considered one of the tech-sector's hottest companies just last year. With their gear at the center of renewed network neutrality discussions, combined with the credit crunch and slowed earnings, the company's stock took a serious beating. With Comcast moving to a "protocol agnostic" solution (aka caps and over-use fees (http://www.corpsman.com/shownews/Comcast-Considering-250GB-Cap-Overage-Fees-94185)), Sandvine is offering new "protocol agnostic" service (http://www.corpsman.com/forum/e) (aka "Fairshare") to try and keep pace:FairShare empowers service providers to enable fair usage in the shared access network with advanced techniques to ensure equitable allocation of network resources during periods of congestion. FairShare helps improve network efficiency and overall subscriber quality of experience with a wide range of policy options including a fully application-agnostic approach.
The press release offers virtually no substantive technical information, so I'm trying to dig up more. "Protocol agnotic" is certainly the new buzz phrase among traffic shaping companies (http://www.corpsman.com/shownews/94157) as they attempt to woo cable carriers, who are in turn trying to appease the FCC.
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Sandvine Corporation (http://www.sandvine.com/), whose traffic shaping hardware sits at the heart of the current Comcast P2P throttling controversy (http://www.corpsman.com/shownews/91822), was considered one of the tech-sector's hottest companies just last year. With their gear at the center of renewed network neutrality discussions, combined with the credit crunch and slowed earnings, the company's stock took a serious beating. With Comcast moving to a "protocol agnostic" solution (aka caps and over-use fees (http://www.corpsman.com/shownews/Comcast-Considering-250GB-Cap-Overage-Fees-94185)), Sandvine is offering new "protocol agnostic" service (http://www.corpsman.com/forum/e) (aka "Fairshare") to try and keep pace:FairShare empowers service providers to enable fair usage in the shared access network with advanced techniques to ensure equitable allocation of network resources during periods of congestion. FairShare helps improve network efficiency and overall subscriber quality of experience with a wide range of policy options including a fully application-agnostic approach.
The press release offers virtually no substantive technical information, so I'm trying to dig up more. "Protocol agnotic" is certainly the new buzz phrase among traffic shaping companies (http://www.corpsman.com/shownews/94157) as they attempt to woo cable carriers, who are in turn trying to appease the FCC.
More...