EBU Front Its Views To EU

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Oct 24, 2011 1:17 PM, By Philip Hunter

The European Broadcast Union ( EBU ) met final week with European Commission President Jos Manuel Barroso to confer the future of open service report in the period of TV Everywhere; focusing on problems such as spectrum apportionment process and network neutrality.
This gave the EBU the luck to highlight its perspective that regulators should urge on an open Internet without barriers to access for new operators and service providers, and maybe highlight its be vexed of traffic management.

As the EBU has sharp out on countless occasions, traffic administration has been implemented usually since backhaul and core infrastructures have not stretched in ability as rapidly as access speeds. The EBU calls for obligatory investment in infrastructure upgrades to shut this gap, rsther than than relying on traffic management, that should be limited to definite applications, such as to mitigate proxy congestion, or inhibit wrong content. It should never be used anti-competitively, the EBU insists.

Some Internet Service Providers have sidestepped such admonitions by slicing deals with definite calm owners or broadcasters to broach aloft levels of service for their customers over dedicated links or Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), rsther than than cultured against any particular source of traffic. This draw close of formulating a multiple-tier Internet is attainment ground, for e.g. with BT in the UK, since it avoids use of traffic administration to stifle definite calm sources inside of a given service. In effect, traffic administration might still be in use but usually at the border of any service.