Posts Tagged ‘net neutrality’
Business - Written Monday, December 15, 2008 by Patrick Harnett - 0 Comments
Google’s Net Neutrality: Lip-service or WSJ Sound and Fury?
The Wall Street Journal posted a pithy article about Google that made the front page of Monday’s edition. There’s also been a little back-and-forth in the blogosphere from the Wired blogs and Google’s Policy Blog (to be fair, it’s been more back than forth).
The article in the WSJ argues that Google’s not-so-new practice of using edge-servers—servers that are closer to dense user populations—as part of their content delivery network is an overture against their pro-net neutrality stance. According to Wired, these edge-servers are co-located at ISPs near their users (which would logically mean major urban centres), which improves the performance of Google’s sites (like YouTube). The WSJ contends that this faster access these edge-servers provide is a breach of net neutrality, as its only for Google content.
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- The customer should pay
- Comcast invests in p2p startup; breaks my irony-meter
- It’s time to deal with the Net Neutrality issue
- Kill the iPhone, save the Internet
- Net neutrality’s next battlefront: Beaumont, Texas?
- There’s a new sheriff in town
- One step back for net neutrality
- Rollins speaks up on Internet Freedom

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