[c-nsp] traffic shaping inbound wan?

[Oliver Boehmer (oboehmer)]

Mikael,

> Let me paint you a scenario:
> 
> customer lan - media converter - fiber - media converter - switch -
> Cisco 7304. 
> 
> (everything is ethernet, either 100M or gige). We can manage the media
> converter (read error counters etc) from the CO media converter, they
> have some specialised management protocol between them.
> 
> Now I want to sell QoS 30M service, fully managed and us doing all the
> intelligent stuff. Either I buy a Cisco 2800 and put somewhere in the
> path, doing outgoing shaping for the intelligence, or I could try to
> accomplish the same thing with ingress policing on the 7304.
> 
> The business case for me would be better if I didnt have to put a
> cisco 2800 anywhere in the path, but instead pay extra for the 7304
> to do ingress shaping, or of course, pay nothing extra at all and
still
> have the 7304 do ingress shaping, even if it meant doing one more PXF
> round. 

Right, ingress shaping is what would help you in this case. There is
some HW (albeit not the 7304) which is able to help you here as
indiciated in another mail I sent on this thread..

	oli