FWIW, I recently heard someone ask the question - "how do you go to your investors and tell them you need more money for more bandwidth because you don't want to efficiently manage your existing capacity?"
This is the business case for QoS, IMHO.
Irwin
From what I've seen, there isn't a simple answer. In places where bandwidth is exorbantantly expensive (such as outside the United States), simply over
Which costs more, wholesale, raw bitpipes or qualified engineering talent to create/police the policies needed to maintain QoS? --bill That's the $64k question. :-) provisioning isn't an acceptable answer. However, in some places in the U.S. & Europe, over-provisioning may certainly make more sense. In our area, we're also seeing a lot of pushback against the continued tearing up of streets to lay additional fiber, so QoS may become the only option to meet required service levels. Irwin