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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet
The key components of Virgin's problems right now are the number of customers per segment (too many) and the traffic management on 100Mb specifically (none).
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This has always been my puzzle. To my mind, if you need to control the usage of the top 5% of capacity users, the declared goal of the system, then the current system of speed curbing in traffic management is weird. My reasoning is as follows:
The top 5% of capacity users are almost certainly going to be on the top tier service (currently 100meg).
To catch the top 5%, a suitable usage limit should be placed on top tier and when exceeded their speed is limited much like the current system on the lower tiers. Similar for upstream.
That should catch the top 5% of capacity users. The same limits should be placed on other tiers to prevent that top 5% from moving to 50meg services and sacrificing speed for unlimited capacity. Standard lower tier users will never get close to these limits though, as they would be designed for the 100meg service, and so the lower tiers would effecitvely have no limits to worry about.
Currently the top 5% get away scot free leaving the lower tier customers to get restricted so as to open up capacity for those top 5% to gobble up. This is the reverse of the stated purpose of the policy and such a policy is not going to be viable once Youview gets hold.
Clearly it needs addressing. Let's hope someone is actually thinking things through logically. I have no speed issues but I fear the day they will happen and am keen to see a logical policy put in place that actually targets the top 5% instead of missing them completely and restricting everyone but the top 5%.