Brough Turner’s Why there’s no Internet QoS and likely never will be is a great explanation of where the bottlenecks in the Internet are. Well worth the read.
As I read this, I found myself wondering whether the whole net neutrality debate might in fact turn out to be nothing more than a distraction in the end. The network operators all want high bandwidth to the home in order to deliver media. Perhaps VoIP will end up being simply carried with it.
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Here’s a longish rant on QoS which is making the rounds this morning. The author’s contention is that QoS is nothing more than a disguised billing model for incumbents. I am not sure I entirely agree, but I certainly do agree that there are simpler solutions than the ones being proposed. The case for QoS isn’t that the network operators network doesn’t have bandwidth, but rather that the last mile is so poor. Prioritizing traffic on the routers we all use would solve that problem.Â
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