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RE: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement Concerning Comcast's
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Frank Bulk)
Thu Dec 2 14:44:59 2010
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Then ignore Ou's post and focus on the point I tried to make: that Level3
has a vested interest in making sure the Comcast users have a good Netflix
experience. =)
Frank
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From: William Allen Simpson [mailto:william.allen.simpson@gmail.com]
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Subject: Re: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement Concerning Comcast's
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On 12/2/10 12:49 AM, Frank Bulk wrote:
> George Ou touches on a similar point at the end of his article:
>
http://www.digitalsociety.org/2010/11/level-3-outbid-akamai-on-netflix-by-re
> selling-stolen-bandwidth/
>
The Ou article makes no sense at all! It's based on the premise that Level
3
and Comcast are peering, and that traffic should be symmetric. Everywhere
else,
the articles and pundits indicate that Comcast is a transit customer of
Level 3.
All actual network operators know that traffic isn't symmetric!
Ou's hit piece reads more like a pseudo-libertarian rant. In fact, other Ou
posts listed there have titles that read like an ultra-conservative cum
social-conservative rant:
* Wrong On The Internet >
Another Net Neutrality 'violation' debunked
* Why Viacom and others justified in blocking Google TV
* Wrong On The Internet >
Genachowski pushing ahead with Net Neutrality during lame duck
* Google hypocrisy on content blocking
* Hijacking the Internet is trivial today
You have to consider the source. If Ou doesn't understand contracts,
peering,
and/or transit, just take his posts with a grain of salt.
