Network SLA

Wed Apr 15 11:10:43 UTC 2009

Hmmm. Good point. Perhaps the Internet traffic gets only a small share of
the link capacity and the rest is reserved for corporate clients' VPN
traffic etc. I was thinking more along the lines of corporate SLAs, not for
Internet traffic.

On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Rod Beck <Rod.Beck at hiberniaatlantic.com>wrote:

>  Congestion is more common than you think. And by the way, if congestion
> is not a problem in Pakistan, then why is the VoIP qualit so poor?
>
> :)
>
> Roderick S. Beck
> Director of European Sales
> Hibernia Atlantic
> 13-15, rue Sedaine, 75011 Paris
> http://www.hiberniaatlantic.com
> Wireless: 1-212-444-8829.
> French Landline: 33+1+4355+8224
> French Wireless: 33-6-14-33-48-97.
> AOL Messenger: GlobalBandwidth
> rod.beck at hiberniaatlantic.com
> rodbeck at erols.com
> ``Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.'' Albert
> Einstein.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Saqib Ilyas [mailto:msaqib at gmail.com <msaqib at gmail.com>]
> Sent: Wed 4/15/2009 11:22 AM
> To: nanog at nanog.org
> Subject: Re: Network SLA
>
> I talked to the NOC personnel at a small (compared to North American
> standards) ISP in Pakistan. They said that their core links are operating
> at
> less than 50% utilization most of the time. Under such conditions,
> violating
> SLA conditions in the core is unlikely. If such is also the case with most
> service providers in the North America as well, then why would they even
> use
> active measurement such as iPerf or BRIX or Cisco IP SLAs before signing an
> SLA?
> Thanks and best regards
>
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 8:50 PM, Saqib Ilyas <msaqib at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Greetings
> > I am curious to know about any tools/techniques that a service provider
> > uses to assess an SLA before signing it. That is to say, how does an
> > administrator know if he/she can meet what he is promising. Is it based
> on
> > experience? Are there commonly used tools for this?
> > Thanks and best regards
> > --
> > Muhammad Saqib Ilyas
> > PhD Student, Computer Science and Engineering
> > Lahore University of Management Sciences
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Muhammad Saqib Ilyas
> PhD Student, Computer Science and Engineering
> Lahore University of Management Sciences
>
>

-- 
Muhammad Saqib Ilyas
PhD Student, Computer Science and Engineering
Lahore University of Management Sciences