[49969] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: QoS/CoS in the real world?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen J. Wilcox)
Sun Jul 14 06:57:51 2002
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 11:57:02 +0100 (BST)
From: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@opaltelecom.co.uk>
To: JC Dill <nanog@vo.cnchost.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <5.0.0.25.2.20020713215539.04798dc0@pop3.vo.cnchost.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
You are talking standard SLAs tho right? Guarantee 0.001% packet loss, RTT Xms
between points on your network.. etc.
I was interested in traffic engineering, ATM/Frame PVC style. RSVP, MPLS TE,
diffserv and all that good stuff, of which I had no responses of people using it
and selling them as services.
Steve
On Sat, 13 Jul 2002, JC Dill wrote:
>
> On 04:46 PM 7/13/02, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
>
> >I conclude either the people doing this are successful and keep their secret
> >safe or the world is yet to sell largescale QoS across IP.
>
> There's a world of difference between "sell" and "actually provide". IMHO,
> QoS is sold by many networks, but not actually provided (at the
> router). What IS provided is a system to give the QoS paying Customer
> credit if they A) notice they didn't get the quality of service their
> contract specified, and B) they request a credit.
>
> jc
>
>
