[16476] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Traffic Shapping
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hank Nussbacher)
Mon Apr 27 02:20:20 1998
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 09:11:20 +0200
To: mark@vielle.datasys.net (Mark R. Lindsey), barton@cent.net,
Ehab Hadi <ehabh@hotmail.com>
From: Hank Nussbacher <hank@ibm.net.il>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu, no@frontier.net,
"Barton F. Bruce" <BRUCE@Eisner.DECUS.Org>
At 03:25 PM 4/25/98 -0400, Mark R. Lindsey wrote:
>: >Can you please specify what platform that you are using? any why
>: >you like to do the traffic shaping on the Ethernet which is
>: >suppositly 10 Mbps?
>:
>: He may well want to shape on an ethernet where he has multiple
>: customer machines that are each paying for different amounts of bandwidth.
>:
>: Shaping a-la cisco is uni-directional out on an interface, and so
>: poorly answers many needs.
>
>Xedia Corporation makes a nifty device specifically for IP traffic
>shaping. It seems fairly well evolved, and can act as a bridge or a
>router, though it's definitely built for the edges of a network.
>
>(I'm not affiliated with Xedia; just played with their product.)
One can find a number of PPT files from a conference ISOC-IL held in 1/98.
Three bandwidth mgmt products were discussed (Floodgate, Classdata & Bandwiz):
http://www.isoc.org.il/conf98/pres.html
-Hank
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