16 Dec
2005
16 Dec
'05
12:10 p.m.
* Sean Donelan:
AT&T, Global Crossing, Level3, MCI, Savvis, Sprint, etc have sold QOS services for years. Level3 says 20% of the traffic over its backbone is "better than Best-Effort."
Well, are you sure these traffic classes are actually enforced at the router level? Maybe it's just a difference in the SLA, and the packets are still treated the same across the network.
Internet2 gave up on premium QOS and deployed "less-than Best Effort" scavenger class.
I doubt that utilization on Abilene is high enough for QoS to make any difference. 8-)