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But what QOS features are included in the standard product offerings?<<<

Most competitive vendors now provide native and upgrade provisions for QoS in one form or another. The problems most often encountered revolve around multi-vendor cos/qos feature implementation incompatibilities. The "least common denominator features" that are needed for basic interworking usually do not extend to 'differentiating' features that vendors like to hold close to the vest, such as prioritization and cos/qos features. Not without much grief, in any event. It forces one to seriously consider single vendor solutions. fwiw. ------Original Message------ From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com> To: nanog@merit.edu Sent: May 29, 2001 6:17:46 AM GMT 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?