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Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance
From: "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 13:55:48 GMT
Bill, I understand completely what you are saying, but QoS is not ubiquitous in the end-to-end sense in the Internet. And that is a problem. Once _any_ traffic which you might deem "quality" leaves your administrative control (e.g. the boundaries of your network), you have no guarantee that the "quality" handling of that traffic will be honored (or, in this case, carried at all). I agree with whomever said it earlier -- remember that the global Internet is nothing more than a bunch of interconnected private networks. - ferg -- Bill Nash <billn () billn net> wrote: Obviously VOIP needs QoS to function well on oversold, commodity broadband networks. Why not just paint VOIP with a broad QoS brush (as in, prioritize all of it, not just your own service) and defang the folks just looking for an excuse to step in and take the option away from you? - billn -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
Current thread:
- Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance, (continued)
- Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance Owen DeLong (Mar 31)
- Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance Owen DeLong (Mar 30)
- Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance Eric A. Hall (Mar 31)
- Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance Daniel Golding (Mar 31)
- Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance Greg Boehnlein (Mar 30)
- Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance Adrian Chadd (Mar 30)
- Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance Greg Boehnlein (Mar 30)
- Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance Adrian Chadd (Mar 30)
- Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance Adrian Chadd (Mar 30)
- Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance Fergie (Paul Ferguson) (Mar 31)
- Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance Bill Nash (Mar 31)
- Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance Fergie (Paul Ferguson) (Mar 31)
- Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance Greg Boehnlein (Mar 31)
- Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance Joe Abley (Mar 31)
- Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance Randy Bush (Mar 31)
- Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance Greg Boehnlein (Mar 31)
- Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance Eric A. Hall (Mar 31)
- Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance Suresh Ramasubramanian (Mar 31)
- Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance Bill Nash (Mar 31)
- Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance Mikael Abrahamsson (Mar 31)
- Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance Randy Bush (Mar 31)
- Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance Lucy E. Lynch (Mar 31)