Re: QoS/CoS in the real world?

["Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve () opaltelecom co uk>]

You are talking standard SLAs tho right? Guarantee 0.001% packet loss, RTT Xms
between points on your network.. etc.

I was interested in traffic engineering, ATM/Frame PVC style. RSVP, MPLS TE,
diffserv and all that good stuff, of which I had no responses of people using it
and selling them as services.

Steve

On Sat, 13 Jul 2002, JC Dill wrote:

> On 04:46 PM 7/13/02, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
>
>  >I conclude either the people doing this are successful and keep their secret
>  >safe or the world is yet to sell largescale QoS across IP.
>
> There's a world of difference between "sell" and "actually provide".  IMHO, 
> QoS is sold by many networks, but not actually provided (at the 
> router).  What IS provided is a system to give the QoS paying Customer 
> credit if they A) notice they didn't get the quality of service their 
> contract specified, and B) they request a credit.
>
> jc