[87403] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher L. Morrow)
Thu Dec 15 22:57:09 2005
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 03:53:27 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@mci.com>
In-reply-to: <17314.14694.84055.497629@roam.psg.com>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc: John Kristoff <jtk@northwestern.edu>, nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Randy Bush wrote:
> > ah-ha! and here I thought they wanted buzzword compliance :) From what
> > sales/customers say it seems like they have a perception that 'qos will
> > let me use MORE of my too-small pipe' (or not spend as fast on more pipe)
> > more than anything else.
>
> and i wonder who is selling that need?
the wierd thing is you'd think the telco would just say: "Well gosh, sorry
we can't help you squeeze 10lbs of poo into your 5lb bag, wanna by a
shiney new 10lb bag?" or maybe you meant equipment vendors? :)
