A little-known vendor named Caspian Networks Inc. has been shopping its approach to “fair use” with Verizon Communications Inc., COMPTEL and The VON Coalition – and plans to present it to the FCC at an unspecified future date – in what it says is an attempt to find a consensus solution to the issue of net neutrality.
Although Caspian announced its product last year, the company just today formally unveiled what it calls its Fair Use Policy Framework and came out with a paper on it wrote in cooperation with law firm Kelley Drye & Warren LLP.
Junaid Islam, Caspian’s vice president of marketing, said Kelley Drye’s analysis shows the Caspian fair use mechanism is most in line with FCC goals for a balanced market; allows service providers to make money; and gives subscribers the ability to access any applications they desire.
“People have spent billions on Juniper and Cisco networks, and now they want to make money on it,” said Islam, who added Caspian is about doing just that by dynamically assigning bandwidth and delivering QoS through policy enforcement.
Caspian’s fair use model – which would require incumbent telcos to install new equipment at key traffic transit locations like peering points – dynamically doles out bandwidth equally to all users on the network at a particular time, and it can prioritize premium services non-discriminately to online services and incumbent operators – all without deep packet inspection.
The system also protects emergency traffic like CALEA and GETS (government emergency telecommunications system).
Caspian Networks Inc. www.caspiannetworks.com
COMPTEL www.comptel.org
Kelley Drye & Warren LLP www.kelleydrye.com
The VON Coalition www.von.org
Verizon Communications Inc. www.verizon.com
