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Cox to Begin Throttling FTP, P2P, and Usenet Next Month

By soulxtc

Plans to test out new bandwidth-management system in their Kansas and Arkansas markets that will "momentarily" delay "non-time-sensitive" Internet applications. Beginning next month, Cox Communications, this country's third-largest ISP, has announced plans to test out a new bandwidth-management system in its Kansas and Arkansas markets that will categorize traffic into time-sensitive and non-time-sensitive traffic categories, throttling the latter in order to "provide customers the best possible Internet experience" for its subscribers. "During the occasional times the network is congested, this new technology automatically ensures that all time-sensitive Internet traffic -- such as Web pages, voice calls, streaming videos and gaming - moves without delay," Cox said. "Less time-sensitive traffic, such as file uploads, P2P and Usenet newsgroups, may be delayed momentarily - but only when the local network is congested." Cox's move comes after industry leader Comcast was reprimanded last year by the FCC for singling out P2P applications like BitTorrent during peak times of network congestion.

Full post as published by ZeroPaid on January 28, 2009 (boomark / email).