CRS-3 router

[Greg Syverson]

I just read up a little on the new router that Cisco has announced. I can see high quality video over the net. Our future is looking good. Red is rocking and will continue to do so as the rest of the world catches up.

[Joel Jameson]

There's a whole lot more that goes into delivering something like this than a new router. It's going to take the carriers a few years to trickle these devices in plus they need a reason to actually give video a priority.

Their efforts right now are mostly focused on making somebody pay to "transmit data through their pipes" rather than improving delivery. An example is when you do a google search the carriers want a cut of what google is making off the ads because it's going over "their" pipes.

[Gavin Greenwalt]

Considering the % of bandwidth that is consumed by piracy I would love to see the ISPs try and get a share of Google's ad revenues.

The second they prove that they're entitled to compensation for a valuable commodity traveling through 'their' pipes is the second they've opened themselves to liability for piracy.