On Monday, at the CRTC’s network management proceedings, Juniper raised the idea of users defining which applications they want to receive priority in times of congestion. Some follow-up discussions on Tuesday indicated an interest from other parties in this area.
But many reports glossed over the concept that only some of the network management could be achieved in this manner, not all.
For applications that consume all of the available bandwidth in a shared network environment, it doesn’t appear to be sufficient for customers to set their own prioritization – the network would still need to reserve an allocation for those customers that don’t share the same focus.