[87325] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Two Tiered Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Dupuy)
Wed Dec 14 13:05:22 2005
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 12:03:47 -0600
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: John Dupuy <jdupuy-list@socket.net>
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btradianz.com>
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At 08:41 AM 12/14/2005, Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com wrote:
>QoS is for customers, not for network operators!
>
>--Michael Dillon
That is probably the best way I have heard it put before!
Since network bandwidth is a zero-sum game, QoS is simply a method of
handling degraded or congested service in a graceful manner.
John
