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Does the congestion management technique target peer-to-peer (“P2P”) or other applications, or make decisions about the content of my traffic?

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Does the congestion management technique target peer-to-peer (“P2P”) or other applications, or make decisions about the content of my traffic?

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No. The technique is “protocol-agnostic,” which means that the system does not manage congestion based on the applications being used by customers. It is also content neutral, so it does not depend on the type of content that is generating traffic congestion. Said another way, customer traffic is congestion-managed not based on the applications or content being used, but based on current network conditions and recent amounts of data transferred by users.