Friday, August 22, 2008

Comcast Says It Hasn’t Settled on Traffic-Management Plan

Despite all the reports that Comcast plans to slow some traffic up to 20 minutes, the company said it has made no final decisions about the best way to manage network traffic, according to an IDG story in The New York Times.

After a public outcry, The Federal Communications Commission ordered the company to stop doing what it had done in the past, which amounted to throttling BitTorrent peer-to-peer traffic.

Comcast spokesman Charlie Douglas said the company has been testing “protocol agnostic” network-management techniques since May.

The FCC voted earlier this month to bar broadband providers from blocking or slowing specific applications.

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