[24109] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Is anyone actually USING IP QoS?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Hannan)
Wed May 19 01:42:30 1999
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 22:41:07 -0700
From: Alan Hannan <alan@globalcenter.net>
To: Pete Kruckenberg <pete@kruckenberg.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9905181654410.3883-100000@office.inquo.com>; from Pete Kruckenberg on Tue, May 18, 1999 at 05:29:34PM -0600
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> If I were to put together a native-IP network (probably POS)
> which was running high levels of traffic (at least DS-3 to
> start and probably OC-3), and put services such as dial-up,
> hosting/co-locate, DSL, and high-speed dedicated, and mix in
> VoIP, is it feasible to use one IP pipe and logically
> segment it with IP QoS/CoS features?
You just described our network, and what several of our
customers are doing.
In other words, Yes.
Now, it's not for blue haired ladies or non-innovative
IT directors [translate to low risk tolerance]. But it
absolutely is done today.
> So far, it seems that the way to do this is to physically or
> logically segment the network using separate circuits or
> ATM. But it would make a lot of sense (in theory at least)
> to use IP and bunch everything together.
Bah. Keep listening to your ATM vendors...
-a
