is this like a peering war somehow?

Sun Jan 22 19:56:16 UTC 2006

On Sun, 22 Jan 2006, Petri Helenius wrote:

> And the real question is if the money is better spent on implementing 
> preferential treatment or upgrading the infrastructure as a whole.

If you have an 8meg ADSL line and want to deliver IPTV you need some kind 
of preferential treatment to the TV packets on this access line to ensure 
quality, for instance in the case of the user doing a file transfer at 
the same time they're watching TV.

Should anyone be able to request this preferential treatment, perhaps even 
without a contract? Should we trust TOS values across the net? If not, who 
should we trust?

The argument that QoS in the core is a moot point or not can be left 
behind, if you're talking access, then some kind of intelligent queueing 
is needed to ensure low packetloss for realtime services. Giving each 
customer a 100M pipe might sound good but it's not really economically 
feasable in the short term.

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