It’s time for the FCC to “take a...
It’s time for the FCC to “take a look under the hood and learn whether Internet traffic exchange issues are putting up a barrier to continued innovation and investment on the Internet,” said a blog post Wednesday by Office of…
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Engineering and Technology Chief Engineer Julie Knapp and Walter Johnston, chief of OET’s Electromagnetic Compatibility Division (http://fcc.us/1uH08km). The post cited recent disputes between Netflix, Cogent and ISPs like Comcast and Verizon as an example of the problems facing consumers. The FCC Measuring Broadband America report (CD June 19 p7) provided evidence that “there are problems here worth examining,” the post said, citing “notable anomalies” as it collected speed data, with “significant drops in broadband performance” during a period when Cogent reported disputes with various ISPs. “We need to understand better what is going on,” the post said. The agency has released the “full raw data set” to the public so others can analyze the findings, and is “taking a deeper look into causes of congestion” including “analyzing network impact on video service providers such as YouTube, Hulu, and Netflix,” the post said. By winter, the agency hopes to have instituted more testing methodologies that will provide more information on network congestion and peering, it said