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.
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