{"id":4364,"date":"2008-02-11T16:03:18","date_gmt":"2008-02-11T23:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2008\/02\/11\/demand-for-video-reshaping-internet\/"},"modified":"2008-02-11T16:03:18","modified_gmt":"2008-02-11T23:03:18","slug":"demand-for-video-reshaping-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/11\/demand-for-video-reshaping-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"Demand for Video Reshaping Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tPeter Svensson, the AP reporter last seen carrying water for the EFF, has a new piece out <a href=\"http:\/\/ap.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5grNBGWli-Sh6_vIAzZIKpqD8N-AQD8UOACN80\">on the bandwidth shortage:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nInternet service providers and consumer advocates agree that some form of network management, also called &#8220;traffic shaping,&#8221; can be good for everybody. Not all Internet traffic has the same level of urgency. It makes sense for the service providers to give priority to a voice call, which needs a steady stream of quickly delivered data, over a movie download.<\/p>\n<p>This is unusual territory for telecommunications providers \u00e2\u20ac\u201d in the old telephone network, some phone calls aren&#8217;t generally prioritized over others. Prioritization makes the Internet more like the postal system, where you pay for delivery speed and quality of service.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Indeed, one the major problems with Internet regulation is the tendency of the consumer lobby to insist it act like the old telephone network. If the only tool you have is a telecom regulation, every computer looks like a phone. But on the Internet and its access networks, every user competes with every other use for Quality of Service, and that&#8217;s why we need traffic shaping and other forms of QoS.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Svensson, the AP reporter last seen carrying water for the EFF, has a new piece out on the bandwidth shortage: Internet service providers and consumer advocates agree that some form of network management, also called &#8220;traffic shaping,&#8221; can be good for everybody. Not all Internet traffic has the same level of urgency. It makes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/11\/demand-for-video-reshaping-internet\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Demand for Video Reshaping Internet&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-net-neutrality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-18o","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}