RE: Is anyone actually USING IP QoS?

[Hank Nussbacher <hank () ibm net il>]

At 00:01 18/05/99 -0700, Vadim Antonov wrote:
> Actually, the cost of undersea capacity is smaller than the
> cost of land capacity.  For all i know, prices are being kept
> artificially high by parties i don't want to name (they
> know).

I agree that the prices are high.  But as long as they are high, IP QoS and
all the other CoS stuff has a valid place on our toolbench.   -Hank

> (Think cost of rights of way and that digging trenches
> is not that easy).
>
> --vadim
>
> Hank Nussbacher <hank () ibm net il> wrote:
>
> > You are merely showing your geocentricism by saying that bandwidth is
> > essentially free.  That may be true in the USA but not in other countries
> > and especially not trans-Pacific or trans-Atlantic.