Wednesday, September 21, 2005

 

Block that app

Damn network users, always interfering with the operation of networks. They run applications that use bandwidth. They choose "free" instead of "paid." This must stop. Doug Mohoney writes
LAST WEEK, Verso Technologies (www.verso.com) announced the rollout of a "carrier-grade applications filter" that can block so-called bandwidth drains such as Skype, P2P messaging, streaming media, and instant messaging.
David Weinberger, who called this to my attention, writes,
. . . it's free and people like it, hence it must die.
Clearly the best network is one that has no users and supports no apps.

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Any details on how this product works? What happens if you do your VoIP, P2P, etc. across an encrypted and/or encapsulated tunnel, like a VPN or httptunnel etc.?
# posted by Blogger Brent J. Nordquist : 9/21/2005 2:09 PM
 
Just pondering

What postition will Larry/Sergi/Erik take if they launch "Googlenet"?

Free as long as we can snif ?
# posted by Blogger JTH : 9/23/2005 8:00 AM
 
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