Salon’s Farhad Manjoo has this in-depth examination of the network neutrality issue (note: you have to watch an ad to read the piece). Manjoo covers all bases and is pretty even-handed in presenting both sides of the issue, although for folks who keep up with the debate there’s nothing really new here.
One possible exception: the article takes note of how expensive it might be to inject intelligence into the network under a two-tiered Internet scheme.
Despite Cisco’s position, there is fractious division among network engineers on whether prioritizing certain time-sensitive traffic would actually improve network performance. Introducing intelligence into the Internet also introduces complexity, and that can reduce how well the network works. Indeed, one of the main reasons scientists first espoused the end-to-end principle is to make networks efficient; it seemed obvious that analyzing each packet that passes over the Internet would add some computational demands to the system.
Cynthia Brumfield at 7:48 AM|Comments(0)
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