[38270] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: QOS or more bandwidth
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Masataka Ohta)
Sat Jun 2 02:39:09 2001
From: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
Message-Id: <200106020627.PAA03115@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
In-Reply-To: <20010529230034.D52E9C7904@cesium.clock.org> from "Sean M. Doran"
at "May 29, 2001 04:00:34 pm"
To: "Sean M. Doran" <smd@clock.org>
Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 15:26:58 +0859 ()
Cc: nanog@merit.edu, pete@kruckenberg.com
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Sean;
> 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.
Once, I asked an expert in telephone technology on the meaning
of TE. Considering that telephone industry is working mostly
on L2, there is no room to put Cisco-style TE.
His answer was that TE in telephone industry means to just provide
enough bandwdith.
Masataka Ohta
