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The Media Is Getting The Netflix Comcast Deal Very Wrong

By Hank Campbell in Science 2.0
February 24, 2014
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Submitted by Hank on Mon, 02/24/2014 - 12:53
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Do you know the difference between throughput and speed?

If you don't, you certainly would not after reading TechCrunch (the deal “may be legally outside of the traditional net neutrality rules”) or NPR or plenty of other places, who are rushing to use jargon like peering, capacity and transit all wrong.

Oh, and cost. It isn't going to cost you more, notes Dan Rayburn at Streaming Media. 

Bandwidth exchanges, confusing speed and throughput, they get a lot wrong. But Rayburn gets it right, so that's where you should go.

Inside The Netflix/Comcast Deal and What The Media Is Getting Very Wrong - Dan Rayburn

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