Cisco: Broadband Providers Must Control Services

Cisco have come out and stated that broadband internet access providers must make a stand and control their services, otherwise they could risk losing subscriber confidence as bandwidth intensive services such as VoIP slow down their network.

At their World Wide Analyst Conference, Cisco made it clear that broadband providers needed to make sure that all their customers received a guaranteed level of service.

“Broadband providers that begin to offer voice and communication services on top of their own access links will need to gain a better insight into end-user connections. The idea is not to interfere with services consumers might receive over the Web, but to ensure any carrier services connected to the access service have a guaranteed level of quality, no matter what else is running over that link,” reads the NetworkWorld report.