At 03:25 PM 4/25/98 -0400, Mark R. Lindsey wrote:

: >Can you please specify what platform that you are using? any why : >you like to do the traffic shaping on the Ethernet which is : >suppositly 10 Mbps? : : He may well want to shape on an ethernet where he has multiple : customer machines that are each paying for different amounts of bandwidth. : : Shaping a-la cisco is uni-directional out on an interface, and so : poorly answers many needs.

Xedia Corporation makes a nifty device specifically for IP traffic shaping. It seems fairly well evolved, and can act as a bridge or a router, though it's definitely built for the edges of a network.

(I'm not affiliated with Xedia; just played with their product.)

One can find a number of PPT files from a conference ISOC-IL held in 1/98. Three bandwidth mgmt products were discussed (Floodgate, Classdata & Bandwiz): http://www.isoc.org.il/conf98/pres.html -Hank

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