Are you saying XO is giving your biz DSL higher QoS than consumer DSL? I can see them providing the premium services (unblocked ports, etc., higher CIR between POP/gateway and CPE), but be surprised if they're giving your traffic priority on their backbone. At least that's not typical (Genuity, VZ, BA, SBC, L3 history). _____________ David Landers IP Operations Engineering Level 3 Communications _____________ -----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of Eric A. Hall Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 8:32 AM To: Greg Boehnlein Cc: Brad Knowles; Bill Nash; Fergie (Paul Ferguson); nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance On 3/31/2005 9:25 AM, Greg Boehnlein wrote:

On a different tact, where I -THINK- the market will eventually end up is w/ different classes of BroadBand service, whereby QOS and priority will be given to those that wish to pay for it. The $14.95 services will be a best-effort, and the $59.95 services will have priority.

We've there already. When I had my home-office DSL package from XO it was much more expensive than consumer DSL from pacbell, for example, but gave me the ability to run local servers, non-blocking network ranges, etc. Meanwhille, cable contracts are pretty much written such that the service is only supposed to be used for ~web browsing and other basic tasks, and if you want reliability or better bandwidth then call the business service number. I don't see this much in the local provider market though. -- Eric A. Hall http://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/