E-MailNet Neutrality
The controversy over Net neutrality raised its head again when the Associated Press reported in October 2007 that Comcast was throttling peer-to-peer (P2P) Internet traffic. Proponents of Net neutrality saw it as the smoking gun that definitively proves the need for Net neutrality legislation. The debate and the various calls for legislated remedies have introduced an air of uncertainty in the marketplace. Regardless of how politicians ultimately decide to respond to the issue, the debate raises important questions for IT professionals in terms of how much they should invest in technologies that consume high bandwidth, such as P2P and VoIP, and how the proposed remedies might affect the underlying cost structure of those technologies.
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