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Re: QOS or more bandwidth

  • From: Masataka Ohta
  • Date: Sat Jun 02 02:40:55 2001

Sean;

> TE is really a buzzword used by vendor marketroids to extract cash from
> operators who could just as easily spend it on the competition's gear.
> IOW, the traffic that is engineered is the flow of money.

Once, I asked an expert in telephone technology on the meaning
of TE. Considering that telephone industry is working mostly
on L2, there is no room to put Cisco-style TE.

His answer was that TE in telephone industry means to just provide
enough bandwdith.

						Masataka Ohta