[24086] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Is anyone actually USING IP QoS?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hank Nussbacher)
Tue May 18 03:23:58 1999
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 10:20:44 +0200
To: Vadim Antonov <avg@kotovnik.com>, nanog@merit.edu,
steriley@microsoft.com
From: Hank Nussbacher <hank@ibm.net.il>
In-Reply-To: <199905180701.AAA21772@kitty.kotovnik.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
At 00:01 18/05/99 -0700, Vadim Antonov wrote:
>
>Actually, the cost of undersea capacity is smaller than the
>cost of land capacity. For all i know, prices are being kept
>artificially high by parties i don't want to name (they
>know).
I agree that the prices are high. But as long as they are high, IP QoS and
all the other CoS stuff has a valid place on our toolbench. -Hank
>
>(Think cost of rights of way and that digging trenches
>is not that easy).
>
>--vadim
>
>Hank Nussbacher <hank@ibm.net.il> wrote:
>
>> You are merely showing your geocentricism by saying that bandwidth is
>> essentially free. That may be true in the USA but not in other countries
>> and especially not trans-Pacific or trans-Atlantic.
>
>
