Sandvine

Mobile Broadband: You're Gonna Pay for the Convenience

Lindsy Embree — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 07:51:36 -0400

Full article: GigaOM
Stacey Higginbotham
Sandvine (you may remember it as the company that helped Comcast block P2P files) has released data showing exactly how much people use mobile broadband -- and concluded that for carriers, such use is neither sustainable nor profitable.

DPI Vendor Says 90 Percent of ISP Customers Engage in Traffic Discrimination

Stevie Converse — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 07:06:36 -0400

Full article: Ars Technica
Nate Anderson
Sandvine makes deep packet inspection hardware that can identify and then block, shape, degrade, fold, spindle, or mutilate user traffic. The 160 worldwide ISPs who use Sandvine love this particular capability so much that a full 90 percent of them employ it to "manage" their networks in a discriminatory way.

Sandvine Unveils New Bandwidth Cop

Lindsy Embree — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:39:56 -0400

Full article: Light Reading
Jeff Baumgartner
Sandvine has launched a new release of its Fairshare traffic management system, adding new capabilities that, it claims, will help cable MSOs, telcos, and wireless Internet service providers do a better job keeping network congestion in check.

Sandvine Fuels New Comcast System

Stevie Converse — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:28:12 -0400

Full article: Broadband Reports
Karl Bode
Comcast's new traffic management system is simply a software update to existing gear already placed by Sandvine, the company who's systems were found in violation of Net Neutrality.

Fair Use Management is Taking Hold as Solution to Congestion

Lindsy Embree — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:50:23 -0400

Full article: Screen Plays
Fred Dawson
Fair use management of broadband congestion has moved front and center as the logical step away from older peer-to-peer focused methods in the wake of new developments at the FCC and on the technology front.

New Comcast Throttling System From Sandvine?

Lindsy Embree — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:16:49 -0400

Full article: Broadband Reports
Karl Bode
Sandvine, whose traffic-shaping hardware sits at the heart of the Comcast throttling controversy, was considered one of the tech sector's hottest companies just last year. With Comcast moving to a "protocol agnostic" solution, is Sandvine's future in doubt?

DPI: The Good, the Bad, the Stuff No One Talks About

Stevie Converse — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:44:13 -0400

Full article: Telephony Online
Carol Wilson
Deep Packet Inspection technology is moving forward despite political uncertainty. To deal with the backlash created by privacy issues, ISPs have created a "human wall" that keeps the public on one side and discussions about what they are actually doing on the other.

Sandvine Calls Net Neutrality 'Laughable,' Defends Filtering

Stevie Converse — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:08:42 -0400

Full article: ars technica
Nate Anderson
While the CEO of Sandvine's vision of broadband network management has a compelling logic too it, that logic only makes sense in a truly competitive environment where ISPs can't artificially hike per-bit prices and pick "winners and losers" on the 'Net.

Sandvine’s New Plan to Slow You Down

Stevie Converse — Wed, 21 May 2008 11:29:49 -0400

Full article: New TeeVee
Janko Roettgers
Sandvine's FairShare network management tool is supposed to allow ISPs to manage their networks with a protocol- and application-agnostic approach. But the result could still be a nightmare for the online video sector.

Sandvine Gets Agnostic About Bandwidth

Stevie Converse — Mon, 19 May 2008 10:52:57 -0400

Full article: Multichannel News
Todd Spangler
Sandvine, the company whose technology has been at the center of the storm surrounding Comcast's peer-to-peer bandwidth-throttling practices, has created an "application-agnostic" extension to its platform that will not single out any one class of Internet traffic.