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[ NNSquad ] Re: NY Times: Verizon offers system to improve P2P transfers


Verizon continues to stand out from the pack in a growing number of new and
interesting ways. Whether this reaching out to P2P users is legit, or involves
hidden gotchas, remains to be seen. Although, if the abundance of bandwidth
afforded by its FiOS offering is any indication of its philosophical bent,
then I'd be inclined to think that it's for real, especially when one
considers the efficiencies that Verizon itself stands to gain from this
approach. The one potential cause for citing a gotcha that I can see, thus far
-- and I've not looked at this in any depth, but this could play out to be
large-- might involve how Verizon goes about influencing Layer 3 routing,
since, in this case, we see a last mile network operator is having a say,
albeit in collaboration with a P2P vendor, in where traffic is, and is not,
being directed to and from. Thoughts on this or any other facet of this
release? Anyone?

--- lauren@vortex.com wrote:

From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>
To: nnsquad@nnsquad.org
Cc: lauren@vortex.com
Subject: [ NNSquad ] NY Times: Verizon offers system to improve P2P transfers
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:14:25 -0700 (PDT)


NY Times: Verizon offers system to improve P2P transfers

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-P2P-Verizon.html

--Lauren--
NNSquad Moderator