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RE: QOS or more bandwidth

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Woodcock)
Tue May 29 13:36:35 2001

Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 10:34:09 -0700 (PDT)
From: Bill Woodcock <woody@zocalo.net>
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    >         Whenever I did the cost of deploying and managing fancy QoS 
    > and compared it with the cost of getting and managing more capacity,
    > it was always MUCH MUCH cheaper to get and manage more capacity
    > than to mess with more QoS.  

We did one VoIP network deployment, and I tried each of the different QoS
services in IOS at that time (about 18 months ago) both in the lab and in
the field, and more bandwidth was the answer then.

                                -Bill



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