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 -----Original Message----- From: Sean Donelan [mailto:sean@donelan.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 2:18 AM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: QOS or more bandwidth While its generally more effective to add more bandwidth than rationing it with QOS, with the recent downturn in capital markets will QOS become more popular? If your budget for bandwidth has been cut, I'm not sure people will have any budget for QOS either. But what QOS features are included in the standard product offerings?