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Re: Two Tiered Internet

  • From: Bob Snyder
  • Date: Wed Dec 14 13:00:51 2005 
[email protected] wrote:
Since QoS works by degrading the quality of service
for some streams of packets in a congestion scenario
and since congestion scenarios are most common on end customer links, it makes sense to let the end
customers fiddle with the QoS settings in both
directions on their link.


So where would the payback be for this for the last-mile provider? Compared to the pain of setting this up and supporting it, what percentage of customers would actually use something like this? Just trying to educate users on this would be quite challenging. "Well, sir, the service allows you to select which of your traffic is important and should get priority..." "But all my traffic is important!"

It gets more fun when the medium you use to get to the end customer is a shared medium, with some normal amount of oversubscription.

Bob