Is anyone actually USING IP QoS?

Tue May 18 19:14:39 UTC 1999

"John A. Tamplin" <jat at LiveOnTheNet.COM> wrote:

>This is assumes that the number of hosts attached are constant.  If the
>number of hosts grow exponentially, then the bandwidth required of the
>network will grow faster than exponentially.

I didn't notice any exponential growth of hosts in my home (although
my bandwidth grew from 14.4 to a T-1 meanwhile).

The exponential growth of _connected_ hosts was mostly fueled by
connecting existing machines and by new computer users.  Unless
you have a recipe for getting people to breed much faster the
end of that trend is pretty much in sight (witness PC makers
killing themselves in scramble to the way-less-than-affluent market).

--vadim

PS. If you do know that secret recipe please keep it secret :)