http://www.saunderslog.com/2005/11/27/rogers-says-were-not-blocking-podcasts/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rogers-says-were-not-blocking-podcasts An outcome-driven leader, proven technology product developer, and marketer with over 20 years of hands-on experience including start-up, small and large business environments, and the board room. This is my blog. Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:15:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.saunderslog.com/2005/11/27/rogers-says-were-not-blocking-podcasts/#comment-601 Prioritizing Podcasts Low: How? -- Alec Saunders .LOG Sun, 27 Nov 2005 23:08:20 +0000 http://saunderslog.com/2005/11/27/rogers-says-were-not-blocking-podcasts/#comment-601 [...] Regarding how Rogers might prioritize podcast traffic lower than email or web, a reader wrote to me this afternoon with this: I work for a small service provider and talked to the four largest traffic monitoring solutions: Sandvine, Packeteer, Cachelogic, and Allot Communications.  I can’t recall who said it (I think it’s either Sandvine or Cachelogic), but one of them said that N.A. cable operators are controlling their peak traffic (and costs) by selective rejecting certain P2P requests at certain times.  So rather than blocking it out outright, they are automating the selective rejection at certain times.  Which is different again than apply rate policies. [...] [...] Regarding how Rogers might prioritize podcast traffic lower than email or web, a reader wrote to me this afternoon with this: I work for a small service provider and talked to the four largest traffic monitoring solutions: Sandvine, Packeteer, Cachelogic, and Allot Communications.  I can’t recall who said it (I think it’s either Sandvine or Cachelogic), but one of them said that N.A. cable operators are controlling their peak traffic (and costs) by selective rejecting certain P2P requests at certain times.  So rather than blocking it out outright, they are automating the selective rejection at certain times.  Which is different again than apply rate policies. [...]

]]> http://www.saunderslog.com/2005/11/27/rogers-says-were-not-blocking-podcasts/#comment-602 Boris Mann Sun, 27 Nov 2005 20:32:45 +0000 http://saunderslog.com/2005/11/27/rogers-says-were-not-blocking-podcasts/#comment-602 I responded to your comment on <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/1615" rel="nofollow">my blog</a>. Looks like the same stuff that was happening a year ago. I don't know about Rogers, but Shaw was/is using switches from <a href="http://www.ellacoya.com/" rel="nofollow">Ellacoya</a>. I responded to your comment on my blog. Looks like the same stuff that was happening a year ago. I don't know about Rogers, but Shaw was/is using switches from Ellacoya.

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