A telecommunications trade show this week and would cover a meeting of the Federal Communications Commission, via webcast. Ironically, the meeting focused on the FCC proposal that the new proposal, keeping the Internet "open" and "free".
The video of the webcast, go through a Wi-Fi security, started well. But after just a few minutes, the picture began to spread, the wheel of buffer on the media player violently agitated, and the sound started and stopped so often that it could only make sense of two or three words at a time. Sometimes the sound will be launched, where he had left, but then quickly jump forward in the sequence in vivo, short sentences and paragraphs
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Since I could not stand it any longer, turn off my computer, rebooted and connected my Sprint 3G card air.
Almost immediately after the release of the video seemed on the face of President Julius Genachowski on the screen clearly. But the best was that I could hear everything she said. I did not experience a hiccup, no pause. There was little circle goes round and round like the video buffer. It was working perfectly.
The problems I experienced probably because of network congestion unsecured Wi-Fi. Although I do not see a lot of people who connect to the network is still probably a lot of traffic. Meanwhile, Sprint's 3G wireless networks are more tightly controlled, as the spectrum license is a limited resource that must be used efficiently. So even if there had been congestion, could I not have noticed.
Sprint, which owns spectrum licenses more traffic control is in your network of people in the industry shows that its Wi-Fi networks using unlicensed spectrum. In theory, Wi-Fi should be at least three times faster than the wireless network. But when there is heavy traffic on the Wi-Fi, web pages load slower and the video becomes distorted and choppy.
How is a part of Internet neutrality
One topic that has been the subject of heated debate between supporters and opponents of Internet neutrality is how to prevent network operators from favoring some traffic at the expense of services, while enabling operators to manage their networks to ensure their customers have good experience.
When I was sitting a Webcast chopped FCC attempt to reconstruct what was said, I experienced firsthand how a managed Wi-Fi overloaded, just is not working, especially when it comes to video.
And if we are to believe companies like Cisco Systems, which makes most of the power of Internet routers, the network is becoming a much more congested. In June, the company said Internet traffic worldwide will grow to five times its present size between 2008 and 2013. And much of this growth will come from video. Not only is video traffic sensitive to time, but also consumes much bandwidth. The result is a double blow for network operators.
In a recent study of more than 20 providers worldwide, Cisco predicts that in 2013, 90 percent of all consumer IP traffic will be video. Day throughout the world, the average broadband connection, generates approximately 11.4GB of Internet traffic per month. This 11.4GB of data net monthly pass is 4.3 GB of video, or other form of visual applications, such as social networking and collaboration.
And while network operators continue to increase capacity to prevent congestion, is also a need to better manage their networks.
Network design and more critical
In 2009, the Supercomm trade show earlier this week, AT & T Chief Technology Officer John Donovan, said that there must be changes in how networks are designed and managed to maintain demand.
"The ability to perform in 2008 will be a rounding error in five years," he said. "We need to rethink how we bring traffic into our network. We need to rethink the way they interact, how networks are built, how routing is done."
Warned of the consequences if the trader does not act quickly. "We are going to end up in a serious situation for a couple of years, if not collectively as an industry step and throw to
So with more traffic on the network, operators say now is not time to change the rules could hamper the way they manage their networks.
"If you have to treat every bit of it is difficult to manage and protect the network," Tom Tauka, Verizon's chief lobbyist, said. "When you try to make the flow of the network can not have lawyers beyond the shoulders of the engineers tell them what they can and can not do."
It seems that the FCC has received the message. In the non-discrimination principle, which was presented at the meeting this week that the document states that network operators can not discriminate against Internet content or applications, but allows discrimination of the traffic to give a reasonable network management.
Of course, the FCC only in the preliminary stages of drafting new rules for the network. And nobody knows what the final text will be. But I hope that when it adopted the official rules that the management of the network remains intact. For otherwise we are all in trouble.
