[38177] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: QOS or more bandwidth
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean M. Doran)
Tue May 29 19:02:18 2001
To: nanog@merit.edu, pete@kruckenberg.com
Message-Id: <20010529230034.D52E9C7904@cesium.clock.org>
Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 16:00:34 -0700 (PDT)
From: smd@clock.org (Sean M. Doran)
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
TE is really a buzzword used by vendor marketroids to extract cash from
operators who could just as easily spend it on the competition's gear.
IOW, the traffic that is engineered is the flow of money.
Why did Cisco invent Tag Switching? Hint: where is Ipsilon these days?
Hint II: how many big-iron ATM vendors are at the core of the Internet today?
Cynically,
Sean.
