Additional features

ISPs located in the European Union, and many located in the United States – are subject to laws regarding Net Neutrality. Net Neutrality is “the principle that ISPs should treat all Internet communications equally, offering users and online content providers consistent rates irrespective of content, website, platform, application, type of equipment, source address, destination address, or method of communication”.[1]

 

We believe that LibreQoS is the most net neutral QoE platform available, because it focuses on providing an equitable, fair experience for all users on the network. LibreQoS uses CAKE per-end-user, rather than just broadly shaping flows of traffic by category, which is less effective in delivering a quality user experience.

 

Some other QoE solutions use Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) to categorize and de-prioritize or limit certain classes of traffic. These products advertise their ability to constrict streaming video traffic to force an end-users video to downscale from 4K to HD, or to identify speed test traffic and increase a subscriber’s allotted bandwidth only during that speed test. Such approaches are legally risky for ISPs located in territories where Net Neutrality is legally enforced. In the US for example – regulations such as California’s SB-822 clarify that “Reasonable Network Management” needs to be “as application-agnostic as possible”. In the past, companies have paid up to $16 million in settlements over using DPI in this way.

 

Instead, LibreQoS focuses on delivering Quality of Experience through Flow Queuing with CAKE.