[38111] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: QOS or more bandwidth
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com)
Tue May 29 10:58:57 2001
From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
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To: ILazar@tbg.com (Irwin Lazar)
Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 15:14:51 +0000 (UCT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu ('nanog@merit.edu')
In-Reply-To: <0C875DC28791D21192CD00104B95BFE70146DC53@BGSLC02> from "Irwin Lazar" at May 29, 2001 08:15:38 AM
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> FWIW, I recently heard someone ask the question - "how do you go to your
> investors and tell them you need more money for more bandwidth because you
> don't want to efficiently manage your existing capacity?"
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> This is the business case for QoS, IMHO.
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> Irwin
Which costs more, wholesale, raw bitpipes or qualified
engineering talent to create/police the policies needed
to maintain QoS?
--bill