RE: QOS or more bandwidth

[smd () clock org (Sean M. Doran)]

TE is really a buzzword used by vendor marketroids to extract cash from
operators who could just as easily spend it on the competition's gear.
IOW, the traffic that is engineered is the flow of money.

Why did Cisco invent Tag Switching?  Hint: where is Ipsilon these days?
Hint II: how many big-iron ATM vendors are at the core of the Internet today?

Cynically,

        Sean.