Saturday, March 27, 2010

Lightreading Policy, DPI & the Mobile Packet Core Event (CTIA)

 
Lightreading held a panel event during the CTIA show last titled "Policy Control, DPI & the Mobile Packet Core", with experts from leading vendors (here) and an agenda (here) covering all current issues.



Unfortunately, I could not attend the event, but Carol Wilson of LightReading posted the "the five key takeaways" according to their resident experts, Heavy Reading analysts Graham Finnie and Patrick Donegan:

Here is a shorter version of the 5 points. Full story - here.

"1) Technology vendors need to better explain the potential new services and innovations they are developing, for wireless networks in particular, and service providers need to stop hiding their use of Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) and policy-based technology

2) The biggest unanswered question? How do you define "reasonable?"


3) The debate also continues on whether it makes more sense to concentrate DPI and policy control at the core of a network in a centralized fashion, or distribute it at the edge of the network.


4) Handling video traffic using policy and DPI remains a priority.


5) Service providers and their technology vendors need to give consumers more control over policy and how it is applied to them or used to control their services. "

In view of the anticipated death of Net Neutrality (see - "FCC's National Broadband Plan: Net Neutrality, R.I.P., by Doug Hanchard" - here) I fully agree with the above points which leave each operator to deal with what he thinks is a "reasonable traffic management" (See "Net Neutrality Speculations and 3UK" - here ) with clear benefits to itself and the vast majority of his customers. I hope they will all do it with transparency and disclosure to their customers and the pubic (so I do think that some part of Net Neutrality are good !)

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