Future of the Internet

On the Internet, traffic police are blind: They do not see the data, they are command, and they do not give preferential treatment. This is some operators on the Internet Highway, the major American telephone companies, want to change by effectively increasing the fees lane - they want to give priority to those who pay through faster.

Course, consumer protection and networking companies will pay user fees, it is known as the Highway robbery.

"Let broadband providers to control what people see and do online would fundamentally undermine the principles that have made the Internet a success," arts Cardiff told a Senate committee recently. Luzhkov, he played a key role in building the Internet, is now the "Chief Internet evangelist," in the Google Inc.

on the Internet, information, we carried out a "package," small data blocks. E-mail might be divided into several packets and travel different routes to the destination, as there are many ways to car somewhere. The packets can be reached out of order, a few even late, but data can be re-started reorganization of e-mail.

This design is the predecessor of the militarys wishes, a network, which is both simple and reliable. As the Internet has become more widely available, this equal treatment of part of the traffic, so that it attractive individuals, entrepreneurs and large companies of the people on the same footing.

Now, however, the Internet was used for things the engineers 1960s and 1970s, the idea of the impossible, such as video, telephone and Internet games.

It does not matter if an e-mail received, it continued the second half a century later, but half of the delays, is annoying phone, a half a second delay in the fast-moving game can be generally miss a shot.

Therefore, the telecommunications companies want to provide "dual service" guarantee for the price, some packets will arrive at their destinations in time.

Carrier, is based on "the tremendous pressure" from customers to provide more reliable service, said Sean White, director of external operations Keynote Systems, Inc., the two companies track WEB site performance and the Internet.

Brief delay, for example, may lead to stuttering video, advertising is not acceptable, white notebook.

Their three services or not, telecommunications companies need to expand capacity. Cost money to do so, as well as telecom, Internet users will have to pay, one way or another. They said it desirable, the money supposed to come from those who need and are willing to better service, rather than the cost of dissemination of all users.

"We have to recover the cost for building the new capacity, said that the content providers all hope that we provide, and said:" Jimushinuoni, AT T Canadas senior executive vice president of external and legislative affairs .

AT T already provides connections between offices of the same company, or between government offices, using AT Ts own lines rather than the public Internet. This makes AT T, in order to ensure a certain level of quality.

Priority packets, AT T could extend that service the link between a Web site and a surfer at home.

To opponents, abandoning the "network neutrality" principle opens up the prospect of the carriers blocking sites can not afford, or operators their own services - for instance, by providing phone.

The vector of these Pakistanis fear and some strongly worded remarks. Dihansuoen, Verizon Communications Inc., Canada senior vice president and deputy general counsel, the Washington Post quoted telling a conference that Google "is enjoying a free lunch, and should be, any rational account, a lunch suppliers. " Ed Whitacre right, AT Ts chief executive, raised eyebrows with similar statements to the effect that Google and Yahoo Inc. are freeloading on the Internet, a remarkable assertion, taking into account the two companies paid millions of dollars in Internet access fees, as well as other tourists paid Internet access.

Brazil Telecom, Brazils third-largest telephone company said that in mid-February it had installed the first system that can identify types of information - that voice calls _ Beer Company and the provision of information technology, settlement of the company called "tax leakage", the company did not provide further details on its plans.

United States carriers are careful to point out that they do not intend to block anyones Internet access or degradation of service.

"There is no one of the worst people in the paintings can happen here, nor is their place," Cicconi added that the Government would stop any such abuse, as the Federal Communications Commission, in the 1 Under the circumstances, Internet telephone companies to provide Internet voice service disruption competing companies.

In addition, competition among carriers means they will not want to block for fear of losing customers, Cicconi said.

Opponents say that even if toll roads leave the rest of the Internet unimpeded, it will stifle innovation.

"A great concept, the next Google or eBay or Napsters or there will be no capital to get themselves in the fast lane to go away," said Ben Scott in a free press, a non-profit, and promote freedom of expression. "The reason largest electronics companies have been so successful that they started on the same level playing field with everyone." Another objection to the information packet prioritization, is a technical issue.

Internet Association assumptions priorities is the way to go when it started building the next generation high-speed network connecting universities.

However, engineers abandoned this concept, a few years later came to the conclusion that its more effective simply to expand the networks capacity for all traffic - by adding lanes to highways, rather than a parallel The toll road.

FCC support net neutrality provisions of a hedge, leading to calls in Congress for a stronger defense principles, the future will be included in the Telecommunications Act.

Phone and cable companies have argued against any such law, and pointed out that the traditional light of regulating the Internet.

"Hands-off policy has given us the flexibility to innovate and to respond to consumer demand, and said:" Kyle mcslarrow, the Chief Executive of the National Cable and Telecommunications Association.

For operators, part of the attraction of a tiered Internet may be, they will be freed from being a "dumb pipe", and their messengers, and surprisingly simple work, such as through data along patterns of production and consumption. Through layered services, the carrier would become more important, and that there may be more pricing power.

"This is a very rational behavior, the development of the industry as a whole. I will do the same thing, if I were to pay my shareholders, "Free Press Scott said. "But rational market behavior does not necessarily mean good public service."