[175316] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ISP Shaping Hardware
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nick Hilliard)
Mon Oct 20 07:08:38 2014
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Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 12:08:29 +0100
From: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
To: Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@arbor.net>,
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On 20/10/2014 11:12, Roland Dobbins wrote:
> Is QoS in the network infrastructure coupled with strictly-enforced quotas
> insufficient to needs?
for satellite, no.
> These permanently-inline boxes and blades that dork around with general
> Internet traffic to/from eyeball networks can be a support/troubleshooting
> headache . . .
s/headache/nightmare/
The high latency and bandwidth costs on satellite connections are a world
of pain. It should show how awful things are when you can actually improve
things by installing inline bandwidth accelerators and traffic shapers.
Nick
