Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance

["Jay R. Ashworth" <jra () baylink com>]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 05:06:00PM -0800, Bill Nash wrote:
> I find this to be entertaining, since as a VOIP consumer, I'm reimbursing 
> my ISP for the cost of the traffic as part of my monthly tithe. Why 
> exactly are networks taking this stance to QoS VOIP traffic, generated by 
> their customers, into uselessness?

Oh, c'mon, Bill; you *know* why.  :-)

This goes back to when I ran a Teeny Tiny<tm> ISP in '95 on a 256K DSL
link and 40 modems, and got massacred by iPhone:

The carriers based their provisioning, and thus pricing, on a traffic
engineering model that was reasonable *until the Big New Application
became a runaway hit*.

You're not paying (at least at the lower levels of the food chain) for
what you *could* utilize, you're paying for what you're likely to
utilize, *given what the people who set the pricing knew at the time*.

Pricing depends on oversubscription; safe oversubscription depends on
having a pretty decent handle on the traffic patterns, at the macro
level.

Cheers,
-- jra
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