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Re: QoS/CoS in the real world?
From: Kurt Erik Lindqvist <kurtis () kurtis pp se>
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 09:07:48 +0200
A number of people think QoS was interesting for a while but that its never either found its true use or is dead. There are unresolved questions from a customer point of view as to what they are actually going to get, what difference it will make and how they can measure their performance and the improvements from QoS.
Having worked for a pretty large, now bankrupt, Netherlands based operator - where we where looking at QoS what we concluded was that
a) QoS mechanisms are for the local-tail. Backbones should have "enough" bandwidth (and bandwidth is cheap).
b) QoS was for customers with services like VoIP and VPN - and in most cases they where needed becuase the end users refused to buy the bandwidth they actually needed.
c) The QoS implementations in the vendor boxes at best leaves a lot to whish for and in most cases simply does not work (but to their credit they where really helpful in working with us on this).
- kurtis - PS. Notice that I left out the M... word. :)
Current thread:
- QoS/CoS in the real world? Stephen J. Wilcox (Jul 08)
- Re: QoS/CoS in the real world? Nathan Stratton (Jul 08)
- Re: QoS/CoS in the real world? Stephen J. Wilcox (Jul 13)
- Re: QoS/CoS in the real world? Marshall Eubanks (Jul 13)
- Re: QoS/CoS in the real world? Art Houle (Jul 14)
- Re: QoS/CoS in the real world? Marshall Eubanks (Jul 14)
- Re: QoS/CoS in the real world? Art Houle (Jul 14)
- Re: QoS/CoS in the real world? Peter John Hill (Jul 15)
- Re: QoS/CoS in the real world? Bill Nickless (Jul 16)
- Re: QoS/CoS in the real world? Kurt Erik Lindqvist (Jul 15)
- Re: QoS/CoS in the real world? Randy Bush (Jul 15)
- Re: QoS/CoS in the real world? JC Dill (Jul 13)
- Real World Data: Re: QoS/CoS in the real world? Sean Donelan (Jul 13)
- Re: QoS/CoS in the real world? Stephen J. Wilcox (Jul 14)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: QoS/CoS in the real world? Art Houle (Jul 15)
- RE: QoS/CoS in the real world? Stephen J. Wilcox (Jul 18)
- RE: QoS/CoS in the real world? Jeff Hancock (Jul 24)
- RE: QoS/CoS in the real world? Kurt Erik Lindqvist (Jul 25)
- RE: QoS/CoS in the real world? Jeff Hancock (Jul 25)
- Re: QoS/CoS in the real world? Fletcher E Kittredge (Jul 26)