Equipment Makers Enter Fray Over 'Network Neutrality'

[SOURCE: Technology Daily, AUTHOR: Drew Clark]
Makers of telecommunications equipment have authored "white papers" for cable and Bell telephone companies that promote their technical capability to prioritize high-speed Internet traffic and offer tiered Internet service, depending upon the service or application. The documents, from major vendors including Alcatel and Cisco Systems, lend some heft to the increasingly contentious plans by Bell and cable companies to create a tiered Internet with different prices for different services. The white papers envision a world where carriers will use equipment providers to better manage the content that flows through their data pipes so as to recoup higher average revenues per user, known as ARPU in industry terminology
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