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"The evidence is mounting against Comcast more and more as the days go by. This weekend, the Consumerist posted emails they acquired from their readers pointing to directives sent to Comcast customer service representatives mandating that they essentially lie to customers inquiring about the AP tests on their network neutrality.\nToday, we at Mashable recieved a leak of our own from a Comcast insider. The email points to the confirmed usage of Sandvine units in various Comcast network operations centers.  In case you're not familiar with Sandvine, they are a networking equipment company that develops products for broadband service providers which enables them to recognize types and behaviors of traffic on their networks, thus allowing them to filter and 'shape' traffic for the presumed end goal of improving network efficiency (at least for the 'typical' user).  What this means for users of high bandwidth applications is that they will not function as well as they should (if at all).\nOur informant sent the following email to us with the prelude: \"I know these are in use as I type.\"\n\nSubject: Sandvine    Importance: High\nSacramento will be receiving 10 Sandvine units that will be located in Chico, Davis, Yuba City and the main Sacramento HE; see attached \u201Cgrid\u201D for units per HE. In order to get this project started I need you to complete the information on the grid for each location and provide back to me by tomorrow. 12/01. Please review the accuracy of the 7609/CMTS type and if incorrect, please change. XXXXX \u2013 we will need to identify the 7 highest capacity BSRs for this project as well.\nNote, one (1) Sandvine unit supports 2 UBRs or 1 BSR and all will be shipped to 6901 Roseville which will then coordinate getting out to you.\nAfter we provide this information to Division, they will contact us to set up site surveys in order to calculate the required equipment (jumpers, GBICs, etc.) and power for each location; this will all be paid for by Division. The goal is to have Sandvine operational by Feb. 2006.\nI will call each of you tomorrow to followup as well.\nThanks,XXXXX\nProject Description:Deployment of a tool to view the operation of the IP Network:\nTraffic Analysis \u2013 Network DemographicsBandwidth composition \u2013 how do different applications contribute, how much do different users consume and when, how much is exchanged with what other organizationsUsage and AbuseIdentify and characterize individual subscribers. Top talkers, application, bandwidth, minutes, flows. Distinguish between high usage and worm infection.SecurityMonitoring / reporting / mitigationPeer-to-peer traffic mitigationAbility to control the upstream bandwidth that is consumed by non-Comcast customers\n\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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