Undifferentiated Networks Would Require Significant Extra Capacity; New study provides context for ongoing debate over "net neutrality".

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M2 PRESSWIRE-2 July 2007-Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Undifferentiated Networks Would Require Significant Extra Capacity; New study provides context for ongoing debate over "net neutrality"(C)1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:29062007 Troy, N.Y. - A new study by researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, AT&T Labs, and the University of Nevada, Reno suggests that an Internet where all traffic is treated identically would require significantly more capacity than one in which differentiated services are offered.

Findings from the study were presented June 22 at the Fifteenth IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS 2007) in Evanston, Ill. IWQoS is a premier workshop on quality of service research, featuring rigorously reviewed...