Rogers Says “We’re not blocking Podcasts”
Mark Evans made a call to Rogers to investigate the rumour that Rogers is blocking podcasts. They claim no, although they say they are prioritizing email and web higher. How? Packet inspection? Prioritizing ports?
November 27th, 2005 at 6:08 pm
[...] 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. [...]
November 27th, 2005 at 8:32 pm
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.