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On Thu, 22 May 1997 [email protected] wrote: > I believe, in the future, it will be a lot easier and cheaper to > deploy bandwidth rather than manage complex router/switch technology to > support QoS/CoS. I disagree. With the increase in bandwidth and the rtelated increase in multimedia applications we will need QoS/CoS in order to guarantee bandwidth availability for email, web pages and other low bandwidth protocols. >;-) > The challenge for the routing and switching companies will not be to > implement QoS/CoS, but to build fast enough switches and routers to keep up > with this fire hose of data. This will have a major implication on network > design - the concept of the telco intelligent network is dead at these data > volumes. Network intelligence must move to the edge. Anyone who hasn't read Gilder's articles on the Telecosm, should take a break now and read them http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~gaj1/ggindex.html Michael Dillon - Internet & ISP Consulting http://www.memra.com - E-mail: [email protected] The bottom line is track record. Not track tearing. Not track derailing. But pounding the damn dirt around the track with the rest of us worms. -- Randy Bush - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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