[78939] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Clearwire May Block VoIP Competitors
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Gauthier)
Sat Mar 26 13:37:45 2005
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 13:35:31 -0500
From: Eric Gauthier <eric@roxanne.org>
To: "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20050325.052924.11519.62462@webmail04.lax.untd.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> http://www.advancedippipeline.com/news/159905772
>
"...In what the company claims is an effort to preserve the performance
of its pre-standard WiMAX network, Clearwire says it reserves the right
to prohibit the use of a wide range of bandwidth-hungry applications, a
list that apparently includes VoIP as well as the uploading or
downloading of streaming video or audio, and high-traffic Web site
hosting."
Hrm... Isn't a VoIP call realtively low bandwidth? I haven't studied
this, but Vonage's site seems to imply that the maximum data rate is 90Kbps
(http://www.vonage.com/help_knowledgeBase_article.php?article=190). I
typically see speeds greater than this from my web browser... Are they
saying that anything that might consume over 100Kbps isn't going to be
allowed?
Eric :)
