The proposed method is applied to several critical cases, such as the security of electricity supply, operational security in large networks, congestion management, and the question of how to deal with merchant transmission investment.

This includes activities such as carpool matching, administering a commuter vanpool program, air quality forecasting, bicycle and pedestrian planning, congestion management, and developing transportation plans and documents.

Congestion Notification: IEEE 802.1Qau provides end to end congestion management for protocols that are capable of transmission rate limiting to avoid frame loss.

It is expected to benefit protocols such as TCP that do have native congestion management as it reacts to congestion in a more timely manner.

It does not deal directly with broad systems or network issues, such as transportation demand management or congestion management.

Now throttling as congestion management?

And yet, as Comcast is currently showing us, it's possible to run congestion management in a more-or-less neutral fashion on such a network.

Neither is it clear how entrusting control of the network to a single operator that is not the electricity supplier can guarantee an appropriate and adequate level of investment, non-abuse of a key position or better congestion management.

Sandvine network policy control products are designed to implement broad network policies, ranging from service creation, billing, congestion management, and security.

Initial product sales focused at congestion management as operators struggled with the high growth of broadband.