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From: "Adam Armstrong"<lists@memetic.org>
Residence customers will tolerate a lot more oversubscription than business, enterprise, and server going on down the list of oversubscription, but happily *up* the list of "how much can I charge". Remember that QoS and load shaping don't work all that will across the internet at large, but they work pretty decently inside a single switch; you can prioritize customers who are willing to pay extra for it. The problem is similar to airline bookings; it is possible, in the immortal words of Dave Barry, to envision a situation -- this will happen in your lifetime -- where no two customers pay exactly the same price. :-) We're hoping we don't have to do any QoS or shaping, as we don't want any links to be saturated. From the data i've gotten it seems that is
On 27/05/2011 15:23, Jay Ashworth wrote: possible with many hundreds of 100Mbit customers on a 1000Mbit backhaul. The 1G product is the exception to that, and it's a little unclear where that sits, probably in a box labelled "here be failure". adam.