Broadband Developments

Over at ZAYNE HUMPHREY’S BLOG he posts that Verizon is saying that they need the freedom to delay p2p packets in favor of VoIP?

Layne is sourcing an ArsTechnica story.

Finding a balance of cost, performance, and service quality depends on an optimized traffic flow, and to Lynch, this means dividing traffic into two classes: time-sensitive and everything else. Such a management technique amounts to protocol discrimination, though Verizon commits not to deal in content discrimination—all VoIP calls, from all services, will receive the same treatment. Under heavy loads, the network would prioritize the time-sensitive protocols and delay the others until capacity is available. Lynch believes that few customers would even notice the “22ms delay” in other services.

Why not look at the critical service of video delivery? Why just voice?