Re: why strict Net neutrality works best: simple beats complex

stOn Wed, May 20, 2015 at 2:19 PM, Kiritkumar Lathia <[email protected]>
wrote:

> *Narendra *wrote: "Dear telco, Please design or create new business model
> where telco can get the profit with following strict net neutrality. We are
> ready to pay whatever it cost."
>
> COAI argument: OTT (Skype, WhatsApp, ...) have taken away cash cow (voice
> calls) and so we need to increase data costs by x6 to stay in business !
> Alternatively, the Telco Regulations should apply to them (charging, call
> terminations charges, call data storage for x months, police wire-tapping,
> spectrum costs, universal service obligations, area coverage, ....)
>

I would like to see their calculations for the 6x -- in any case, setting
tariffs is the job of TRAI, so I hope they are looking at this "calculation"


>
> Remember: Telco is a regulated industry whereas "Internet" is not
> regulated at all (there is self regulation but not government regulations).
>
> *Arun *had talked about "policing": Here it is not human police but the
> "technical term" as Arun knows - so replace "policing" by QoS whereby
> "rouge" packets (corrupted packets, duplicate packets, data heavy packets,
> ...) are throttled or discarded (!) to provide QoS to all "valid" packets.
>

Again -- this attempt at improving QoS will only worsen QoS -- it is much,
much  better to use the money for faster switches, and stuff. Your road
analogy, Kirit -- reserving a lane for priority traffic certainly slowed
down the speed for everyone else, but the confusion that it caused at
crossings led perhaps to even the priority traffic moving slower. Imagine,
as in the case of optic fiber, that improved technology increses its
capacity all the time.  For instance, "recent advances in modulation
technology mean that with QPSK, 4QAM or 16QAM modulation, 1/80th of a dark
fiber pair can carry a 100 Gbps
<http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/routers/ps5763/datasheet_c78-478689_0629.html>
signal
in the optical space previously occupied by a single long distance 10 Gbps
circuit." (
http://www.metafilter.com/131783/The-data-capacity-of-a-fiber-optic-cable).
Does it in this case make sense to spend money on technology that in the
name of QoS slows down traffic, or better switches that increase capacity
tenfold? Whether you call it policing or QoS, it's a lose-lose.
Arun Mehta

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