North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Is anyone actually USING IP QoS?
> If I were to put together a native-IP network (probably POS) > which was running high levels of traffic (at least DS-3 to > start and probably OC-3), and put services such as dial-up, > hosting/co-locate, DSL, and high-speed dedicated, and mix in > VoIP, is it feasible to use one IP pipe and logically > segment it with IP QoS/CoS features? You just described our network, and what several of our customers are doing. In other words, Yes. Now, it's not for blue haired ladies or non-innovative IT directors [translate to low risk tolerance]. But it absolutely is done today. > So far, it seems that the way to do this is to physically or > logically segment the network using separate circuits or > ATM. But it would make a lot of sense (in theory at least) > to use IP and bunch everything together. Bah. Keep listening to your ATM vendors... -a
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