Re: QoS/CoS interest

[Michael Dillon <michael () memra com>]

On Thu, 22 May 1997 bill.st.arnaud () canarie ca wrote:

> I believe, in the future, it will be a lot easier and cheaper to 
> deploy bandwidth rather than manage complex router/switch technology to 
> support QoS/CoS.

I disagree. With the increase in bandwidth and the rtelated increase in
multimedia applications we will need QoS/CoS in order to guarantee
bandwidth availability for email, web pages and other low bandwidth
protocols. >;-)

> The challenge for the routing and switching companies will not be to 
> implement QoS/CoS, but to build fast enough switches and routers to keep up 
> with this fire hose of data.  This will have a major implication on network 
> design - the concept of the telco intelligent network is dead at these data 
> volumes.  Network intelligence must move to the edge.

Anyone who hasn't read Gilder's articles on the Telecosm, should take a
break now and read them http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~gaj1/ggindex.html


Michael Dillon                   -               Internet & ISP Consulting
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