Comcast Metered Broadband Official — Beware What You Download

Source: http://gigaom.com/2008/08/28/comcast-makes-metered-broadband-official-beware-what-you-download/
28 Aug 2008
Short Summary: Karl Bode over on DSL Reports reports that Comcast will institute a 250 GB cap on its broadband connections starting Oct. 1. Expect other carriers to follow suit and make tiered broadband a reality.

Intercast Feedback
1 Sept 2008
Author: Adam Ehrlich, Intercast Networks Marcom
The fact that Comcast is capping bandwidth usage goes to show that the issue of network congestion and scarce bandwidth resources has become an issue on the forefront of the industry. One can assume that this cap proves that the advent of IPTV is upon us - there would be no need to cap if people weren't downloading heavy files to consume from their PC (or game console, media center etc.). In his article Om Malik argues that HD quality video is a major drain upon bandwidth resouces and as consumers increasingly look to consume HD grade videos the issue of network congestion will only become more and more commonplace.
Intercast Networks' video delivery platform provides a perfect solution to all of the issues mentioned in the article as it offers scalable amounts of HD quality video without using up network resouces. This solution becomes more valuable as consumers increasingly download HD grade video thus further straining an already lagging network.