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At the NANOG meeting in Baltimore this week I listened to a presentation by Patrick Gilmore on “The Open Internet Debate: Section 706 vs Title II†It’s true that this is a title that would normally induce a comatose reaction from any audience, but don’t let the title put you…
How “big” is a network? How many customers are served by an Internet Service Provider? While some network operators openly publish such numbers, other operators regard such numbers as commercially sensitive information. There are a number of techniques used to estimate the relative size of each Service Provider from public…
It’s been an interesting couple of months in the ongoing tensions between Internet carriage and content service providers, particularly in the United States. The previous confident assertion was that the network neutrality regulatory measures in that country had capably addressed these tensions. While the demands of the content industry continue…
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the OECD, is a widely referenced and respected source of objective economic data and comparative studies of national economies and economic performance. The organization has a very impressive track record of high quality research and a justified reputation of excellence in its publications,…
With WICT-12 over, and now the preparation for the forthcoming WTPF underway, and of course also we have the WTDC and WTISD coming up, one could be excused for thinking that that world famous, but hopelessly unintelligible, cartoon character from the 80’s and 90’s, Bill the Cat, has come out…
The problem with setting expectations is that when they are not fulfilled the fallout is generally considered to be a failure, and while everyone wants to claim parenthood of success, failure is an orphan. In that sense it looks like the WCIT meeting, and the International Telecommunications Regulations (ITRs) that…
No that’s not a question about Australian coffee tastes and the critically important difference between a flat white and a cappuccino. This is a question about the differences in ISP retail models for broadband Internet access and the choice between a retail model of a “unlimited” flat fee that has…
Does anyone remember the Internet before Google? And no, using Google to ask about the pre-Google Internet is not going to work all that well! For those of you who can recall the Internet of around 2000, do you also recall what debates were raging at the time? Let me…
It’s been a quarter of a century since the world’s governments convened to draft up a common set of regulations about the conduct of international telecommunications. In December of 2012 the world’s governments will convene to reconsider these regulations, to hopefully sign an updated set of regulations. This time around,…
Back in 1997, with Paul Ferguson, I wrote a book on “Quality of Service” (QoS) in IP networks. A couple of years later I pushed out a revision of the book (“Internet Performance Survival Guide”) that looked more generally at service performance in IP networks, and examined in voluminous detail…
