Broadband

When it comes to broadband speeds, ISPs should provide a broadband “nutrition label”—easy-to-understand information about service-limiting factors—and users need better ways of measuring the performance their ISPs are delivering, concludes a College of Computing study. Source: Office of Communications

Georgia Tech's Nick Feamster (Computer Science), one of the researchers working on the recently released study, comments on how US internet service providers do a better job of matching advertised speeds than internet service providers of other countries. Source: Slash Gear

A team led by Constantine Dovrolis (Computer Science) was named co-winner of the FCC's Open Internet Challenge competition for a paper describing two tools, DiffProbe and ShaperProbe, that measure network performance. Source: PCWorld

The shift away from simple, blended-rate pricing shows the Internet interconnection market maturing--and becoming more efficient, according to Nick Feamster (Computer Science) and colleagues. Source: Ars Technica

Constantine Dovrolis' (Computer Science) winning application, DiffProbe, and the other entries into the FCC Open Internet Challenge will help "ensure that consumers and the marketplace pick winners and losers online, and that websites or applications aren't improperly blocked or slowed," said FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski. Source: O'Reilly Radar

Wholesale broadband providers can enhance their profit margins by instituting a small number of pricing “tiers,” concludes a new study by Nick Feamster (Computer Science) and colleagues. Source: Office of Communications

A study by Nick Feamster (Computer Science) and colleagues may have identified a pricing "sweet spot" for Internet transit providers, finding a balance between simplicity and efficiency. Source: Technology Review

Two papers presented last week by Georgia Tech researchers at SIGCOMM 2011 could have big implications for Internet providers and policymakers. Source: TMCnet.com