TECHNOLOGY FEATURE: Net neutrality - A broadband wild west?

WITH LIMITED NETWORK RESOURCES and many competing demands by subscribers, applications, and content providers, satisfying the demands of one stakeholder means taking resources away from another. This problem, along with the greedy nature of applications and the over-subscription model of the Internet challenges network operators and the regulatory environment as they strive to maintain Internet freedoms that subscribers expect from the industry. What follows is a technical White Paper from Sandvine Inc. Broadband service providers are thus in a position to ensure network neutrality with the fair allocation of network resources between potentially competing uses of the network. To do...