MSO revenue is threatened by alternate entertainment content, and is terrified of becoming a dumb pipe with no add-on fees.
MSO revenue is threatened by alternate entertainment content, and is terrified of becoming a dumb pipe with no add-on fees. The issue is that Comcast wants to both connect to the internet for free & get paid by both the viewer and the content provider as they are in yesterday's cable model. Comcast is connected to the internet through 'settlement-free' peering. Comcast can command this because they have grown large enough to trade access to their customer base for access to the transport network's data. Comcast would like to sell direct access to their network to the content providers, but would like to see more money for the service that the content providers are willing to pay. Comcast has allowed (through inaction of normal peering upgrades) the interconnections to Level-3/Cogent to become saturated. The primary data on those interconnections is data that competes with the normal content that Comcast is used to delivering to their customers. Cogent and Level-3 offer less expensive bandwidth than their competitors. This is because of their lack of incumbent telephony models, and being dedicated fiber bit pushers. Comcast is claiming that it is too expensive for them to deliver the service levels to their customers that their customers have contracted. Comcast is demanding that the companies providing the data (not the transit network delivering the data) must pay to have their traffic delivered the last mile. Simultaneously to crying that their internal networks are saturated and require upgrade, the MSOs are offering products that allow their customers to use the local provider's network (for locally sourced content) without incurring billing penalties or usage caps. (veteran employee of a transit network involved)
Posted by zero_intp on May 5, 2014, 9:21 PM
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MSO revenue is threatened by alternate entertainment content, and is terrified of becoming a dumb pipe with no add-on fees.
MSO revenue is threatened by alternate entertainment content, and is terrified of becoming a dumb pipe with no add-on fees. The issue is that Comcast wants to both connect to the internet for free & get paid by both the viewer and the content provider as they are in yesterday's cable model. Comcast is connected to the internet through 'settlement-free' peering. Comcast can command this because they have grown large enough to trade access to their customer base for access to the transport network's data. Comcast would like to sell direct access to their network to the content providers, but would like to see more money for the service that the content providers are willing to pay. Comcast has allowed (through inaction of normal peering upgrades) the interconnections to Level-3/Cogent to become saturated. The primary data on those interconnections is data that competes with the normal content that Comcast is used to delivering to their customers. Cogent and Level-3 offer less expensive bandwidth than their competitors. This is because of their lack of incumbent telephony models, and being dedicated fiber bit pushers. Comcast is claiming that it is too expensive for them to deliver the service levels to their customers that their customers have contracted. Comcast is demanding that the companies providing the data (not the transit network delivering the data) must pay to have their traffic delivered the last mile. Simultaneously to crying that their internal networks are saturated and require upgrade, the MSOs are offering products that allow their customers to use the local provider's network (for locally sourced content) without incurring billing penalties or usage caps. (veteran employee of a transit network involved)
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