[ale] FCC says Comcast lied about traffic shaping

[Jim Popovitch]

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 1:26 PM, Jim Popovitch <yahoo at jimpop.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Watson, Keith R.
>  <krwatson at cc.gatech.edu> wrote:
>  > FCC says Comcast lied about traffic shaping
>
>  There are (at least) two sides to this...
>
>  1) The FCC *needs* to look tough these days as Congress is eyeballing
>  them.   A new administration is on the horizon, and FCC jobs must be
>  preserved. ;-)
>
>  2) Given that Comcast is a huge, highly distributed, organization.  It
>  makes sense (to me) that an executive testifying to the FCC in
>  Washington D.C. probably doesn't really know what the Comcast
>  engineers in Tulsa or Omaha are really doing or not doing.   It might
>  just be possible that the intent was there to remove the traffic
>  shaping, but the grunt engineers hadn't gotten the maintenance/change
>  approval to actually remove the equipment.
>
>  I don't have any specifics on the whole Comcast filtering/shaping
>  fiasco, but I do have a deep understand of the huge disconnect that
>  lies between talk-head executives and the rest of us that do real
>  work. ;-)

Some related info to what I wrote about above:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2004377720_comcast28.html

-Jim P.