Its usually economically feasible to overprovision the core so you
maintain 10^-7 or 10^-8 at busy hour (peak workload) right? Then
you only need QoS at the edges right?
-- Mesh Networks, Inc. (www.meshnetworks.com) Phillip D. Neumiller, Staff Scientist pneumiller@meshnetworks.com PH: 1-407-659-5387> Providers don't care for QoS in the core because their service is > transporting packets from point A to point B: If customer A has > sent a packet, it is because they want it delivered (otherwise, why > are they sending it?). If, within a provider core, you arrive at > a state in which packets are consistently being dropped (and are > not victims of some sort of transient outage or attack), then the > solution _for a provider_ is to increase bandwidth within the core. > **************************************************************************** This e-mail is intended only for the addressee named above and may contain confidential, proprietary or privileged information. If you are not the named addressee or the person responsible for delivering the message to the named addressee, please inform us promptly by reply e-mail, then delete the e-mail and destroy any printed copy. The contents should not be disclosed to anyone and no copies should be made. We take reasonable precautions to ensure that our emails are virus free. However we accept no responsibility for any virus transmitted by us and recommend that you subject any incoming e-mail to your own virus checking procedures.
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