[9477] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: QoS/CoS interest
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Dillon)
Thu May 22 11:34:10 1997
Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 08:02:48 -0700 (PDT)
From: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Chameleon.864307017.bstarn@tweetie.canarie>
On Thu, 22 May 1997 bill.st.arnaud@canarie.ca wrote:
> I believe, in the future, it will be a lot easier and cheaper to
> deploy bandwidth rather than manage complex router/switch technology to
> support QoS/CoS.
I disagree. With the increase in bandwidth and the rtelated increase in
multimedia applications we will need QoS/CoS in order to guarantee
bandwidth availability for email, web pages and other low bandwidth
protocols. >;-)
> The challenge for the routing and switching companies will not be to
> implement QoS/CoS, but to build fast enough switches and routers to keep up
> with this fire hose of data. This will have a major implication on network
> design - the concept of the telco intelligent network is dead at these data
> volumes. Network intelligence must move to the edge.
Anyone who hasn't read Gilder's articles on the Telecosm, should take a
break now and read them http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~gaj1/ggindex.html
Michael Dillon - Internet & ISP Consulting
http://www.memra.com - E-mail: michael@memra.com
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