Wax and Schanz have thrown together a nice video explaining peering and paid-peering. If you are concerned about the Comcast – Level 3 dispute, this is a good video to get a footing as to what is actually being discussed in the dispute.

It seems like every time there is a problem between business relationships in the telecom world these days, one side screams “Net Neutrality” and the blogosphere, twitterverse and news media go bananas. It’s like screaming fire in a movie theater, or yelling bomb in an airport, or even playing the race card in some hotly debated political issue.

Level 3 won its bid on Netflix content delivery because it intends to break its contractual obligations on peering with Comcast and essentially resell stolen bandwidth to Netflix. Now it makes perfect sense how Level 3 managed to outbid Akamai since no CDN provider operating legally could outbid hot goods.

Dr. Peter Raad is the Executive Director of the Guildhall at Southern Methodist University. It is a graduate level game design program where students are taught through a multidisciplinary approach. Raad and Glassman discuss the ramifications of video games in American culture.

On Thursday, Dec. 2 — the 2010 Phoenix Center Annual U.S. Telecoms Symposium will be held here in DC, 8:30 a.m., to 12:30 p.m. at the University Club. It looks like an interesting morning. Blair Levin, who directed the FCC National Broadband Plan effort will keynote. Other participants are FCC Commissioner Meredith Baker; an Economists [...]

Comcast Internet services had a major Domain Name Service (DNS) outage yesterday across the Eastern states which essentially broke Internet service for most Comcast customers. This brought back some bad memories of a really bad week for Comcast in April of 2005 when Comcast suffered two DNS outages in the same week.

In yet another case of a made up conspiracy, OpenDNS founder David Ulevitch is misleading the public about Verizon Wireless supposedly blocking OpenDNS servers. I personally tested this accusation and verified that the Verizon Wireless network does not block OpenDNS.

Many in the blogosphere and advocacy groups are up in arms about Viacom and other television networks blocking Google from accessing their content on Google TV. But there are many good justifications for this because content needs to be supported by commercial entities and because Google is getting a taste of its own medicine.

In Scientific American, Tim Berners-Lee seems to argue right past the important policy issues facing the Internet today. Instead of describing actual policy or technology problems, he suggests implausibly apocalyptic outcomes.

The FCC’s apparent about-face on Net Neutrality is really perplexing. Over the past few weeks it looked like the Administration had acknowledged economic reality (and bipartisan Capitol Hill criticism) and turned its focus to investment and jobs. Outgoing NEC Director Larry Summers and Commerce Secretary Gary Locke announced a vast expansion of available wireless spectrum, [...]