[137953] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verizon MPLS service in Anchorage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (lists lists)
Thu Feb 24 10:10:54 2011
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSX.4.64.1102240957420.12978@cevin-2.local>
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 10:10:18 -0500
From: lists lists <list.stuff2@gmail.com>
To: Brandon Ross <bross@pobox.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Brandon Ross <bross@pobox.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Feb 2011, lists lists wrote:
>
> I'm seeing that packets marked as DSCP EF are given fantastic treatment
>> (low
>> jitter, no packet loss), but other packets, including AF41, AF31, and BE
>> are
>> given what appears to be the "junk bucket" treatment.
>>
>
> Hah, just a few days ago I spoke with an "engineer" at VZ that tried to
> claim that each of the treatments were different, but that they only charged
> extra for EF. I asked why I shouldn't just put all my traffic in the
> highest "free" treatment and beat out all the other customers for the best
> treatment for mine. He told me that "most of his customers weren't trying
> to get their traffic through at the expense of other customers".
>
> Anyway, despite what their "engineers" say, only EF is actually treated on
> the VZ network better than BE, the rest are just to prioritize traffic at
> your own egress port.
>
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Brandon,
VZ does or can apply a PE-egress profile that handles traffic differently
based on DSCP marking. Your account team should be able to provide this to
you.
As far as unique treatment within their P network, it sure looks to me that
the higher AF classes do get better treatment.
My problem is that non-EF is handled terribly, and it's causing a big
problem with interactive traffic. Voice is fine.
thanks.
