RE: Two Tiered Internet

2005-12-19 Thread Michael Loftis
--On December 15, 2005 11:27:29 AM +0700 Randy Bush [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: given an internet where the congestion is at the edges, where there are no alternate paths, i am not sure i understand your suggestion. fergie's message gets my vote for right-on message of the month. this is all

Re: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-18 Thread Chris Woodfield
One thing to note here is that while VoIP flows are low volume on a bits-per-second basis, they push substantially more packets per kilobit than other traffic types - as much as 50pps per 82Kbps flow. And I have seen cases of older line cards approaching their pps limits when handling

Re: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-18 Thread Joe Maimon
Chris Woodfield wrote: One thing to note here is that while VoIP flows are low volume on a bits-per-second basis, they push substantially more packets per kilobit than other traffic types - as much as 50pps per 82Kbps flow. And I have seen cases of older line cards approaching their

Re: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-18 Thread tony sarendal
On 18/12/05, Chris Woodfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One thing to note here is that while VoIP flows are low volume on abits-per-second basis, they push substantially more packets per kilobit than other traffic types - as much as 50pps per 82Kbps flow.And I have seen cases of older line cards

Re: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-18 Thread Jay Hennigan
Joe Maimon wrote: Chris Woodfield wrote: One thing to note here is that while VoIP flows are low volume on a bits-per-second basis, they push substantially more packets per kilobit than other traffic types - as much as 50pps per 82Kbps flow. And I have seen cases of older line cards

Re: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-18 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Sun, 18 Dec 2005, Joe Maimon wrote: Something about intelligent edges? The payload length of voip applications often has a lot to do with rtt. Adapting payload length to the actuall average rtt could have a positive effect on pps throughput. What is your suggestion? High latency

Re: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-18 Thread Joe Maimon
Jay Hennigan wrote: VoIP by design will have high PPS per connection as opposed to data flows. At 20 ms sample rates you have 50 pps regardless of the CODEC or algorithm. Increasing the time per sample to 40 ms would cut this in half but the added latency would result in degraded

Re: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-18 Thread Joe Maimon
Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: On Sun, 18 Dec 2005, Joe Maimon wrote: Something about intelligent edges? The payload length of voip applications often has a lot to do with rtt. Adapting payload length to the actuall average rtt could have a positive effect on pps throughput. What is your

Re: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-16 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: ah-ha! and here I thought they wanted buzzword compliance :) From what sales/customers say it seems like they have a perception that 'qos will let me use MORE of my too-small pipe' (or not spend as fast on more pipe) more than anything else.

RE: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-16 Thread a.harrowell
Yes. Best effort should be something to aspire to, not worse than carrier grade -Original Message- From: Sean Donelan[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 16/12/2005 00:15:49 To: nanog@merit.edunanog@merit.edu Cc: Subject: RE: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet] On Thu, 15 Dec 2005

Re: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-16 Thread Mark Smith
On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 04:16:17 + (GMT) Christopher L. Morrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: http://www.secsup.org/files/dmm-queuing.pdf oh firstgrad spelling where ahve you gone? also at: http://www.secsup.org/files/dmm-queueing.pdf

Re: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-16 Thread Michael . Dillon
most large networks (as was said a few times I think) don't really need it in their cores. I think I've seen a nice presentation regarding the queuing delay induced on 'large pipe' networks, basically showing that qos is pointless if your links are +ds3 and not 100% full. Someone might

Re: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-16 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake Mikael Abrahamsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: ah-ha! and here I thought they wanted buzzword compliance :) From what sales/customers say it seems like they have a perception that 'qos will let me use MORE of my too-small pipe' (or not spend

Re: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-16 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Stephen Sprunk wrote: Adaptive jitter buffers are old technology; Skype is hardly the first company to use them. Most phones and softphones have them; it's the gateways at the other end that are usually stuck with static ones. Personally I find the delay of the

RE: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-16 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Min Qiu wrote: Hi Chris, hey :) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Christopher L. Morrow Sent: Thu 12/15/2005 10:29 PM To: John Kristoff Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet] snip

Re: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-16 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday 14 December 2005 23:31, Randy Bush wrote: would we build a bank where only some of the customers can get their money back? Not taking into account the FDIC, we already have that, since banks are only required to keep 10% of any given depositor's monies. we're selling delivery

Re: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-16 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake Christopher L. Morrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Min Qiu wrote: Not 100% true. Through I agree QoS has little impact in the core that has OCxx non-congested backbone (more comments below). In the edge, it does has its place, as Stephen Sprunk and Mikael Abrahamsson

RE: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-16 Thread Sean Donelan
On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: Maybe part of the discussion problem here is the overbroad use of 'QOS in the network!' ? Perhaps saying, which I think people have, that QOS Probably. Users, executives and reporters are rarely careful talking about the technical details.

RE: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-16 Thread Fergie
Sean, And let's see: What was the problem again? ;-) Oh, yeah -- some telco execs want to degrade traffic in their networks based on __. (Fill in the blank.) - ferg -- Sean Donelan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: Maybe part of the

Re: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-16 Thread Fergie
Bingo. Very well stated. - ferg -- Lamar Owen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] On the operational end, the challenge becomes designing networks that in the presence of ubiquitous oversubscription degrade gracefully and allow certain features to have lesser degradation. Thus QoS. [snip]

RE: Two Tiered Internet

2005-12-15 Thread Hannigan, Martin
[ SNIP ] This is not directed at Sean, but please -- as a fomer Cisco engineering flunky, I can distinguish between marketing fluff (even when disguised as a 'case study') and real figures, and the truth is, there are no figures, because there is dismal adoption of the services. Go

Re: Two Tiered Internet

2005-12-15 Thread Alexander Harrowell
The whole QoS/2 tier Internet thing I find deeply, deeply suspicious...here in the mobile space, everyone is getting obsessed by IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) and explaining to each other that they need it so they can offer Better QoS, like the subscribers want. What they really mean, I suspect,

Re: Two Tiered Internet

2005-12-15 Thread Fergie
Bingo. What they are really saying is: We're _telling_ you that you need it because we need new ways to generate additional revenue. ;-) Cheers, - ferg -- Alexander Harrowell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The whole QoS/2 tier Internet thing I find deeply, deeply suspicious...here in the mobile

Re: Two Tiered Internet

2005-12-15 Thread Alexander Harrowell
And not by offering you anything you might want to buy, either, but by setting up wanky little tollbooths.On 12/15/05, Fergie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Bingo.What they are really saying is: We're _telling_ you that you need it because we need newways to generate additional revenue.;-)Cheers,-

Re: Two Tiered Internet

2005-12-15 Thread Blaine Christian
[ SNIP ] This is not directed at Sean, but please -- as a fomer Cisco engineering flunky, I can distinguish between marketing fluff (even when disguised as a 'case study') and real figures, and the truth is, there are no figures, because there is dismal adoption of the services. Go figure.

RE: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-15 Thread Schliesser, Benson
some harsher labels for it, too. Cheers, -Benson -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Randy Bush Sent: Wednesday, 14 December, 2005 22:32 To: Hannigan, Martin Cc: Fergie; nanog@merit.edu Subject: RE: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered

RE: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-15 Thread Hannigan, Martin
Randy- I don't think your bank analogy is very strong, but never mind that. I agree with what you're saying in principle, that if a user/customer buys bit delivery at a fixed rate then we should deliver it. But isn't that the point. You can't guarantee delivery, just as you can't

RE: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-15 Thread Schliesser, Benson
To: Schliesser, Benson; Randy Bush Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: RE: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet] Randy- I don't think your bank analogy is very strong, but never mind that. I agree with what you're saying in principle, that if a user/customer buys bit delivery at a fixed

Re: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-15 Thread Kevin
On 12/15/05, Hannigan, Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But isn't that the point. You can't guarantee delivery, just as you can't guarantee you won't get a busy signal when you make a call. Absolutely. But if the carrier tunes their network so you will never get a busy signal when calling into

RE: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-15 Thread Fergie
Hi Benson, Okay -- forget about banks, forget about other comparative analogies -- let's talk about the Internet. I think Bill Manning hit on it a couple of days ago; Bill said something about the Internet being about best effort and QoS should be (various) levels of 'better-than-best effort'

RE: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-15 Thread Sean Donelan
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, Fergie wrote: I think Bill Manning hit on it a couple of days ago; Bill said something about the Internet being about best effort and QoS should be (various) levels of 'better-than-best effort' -- and anything less that best effort is _not_ the Internet. ATT, Global

Re: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-15 Thread John Kristoff
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 19:15:49 -0500 (EST) Sean Donelan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ATT, Global Crossing, Level3, MCI, Savvis, Sprint, etc have sold QOS services for years. Level3 says 20% of the traffic over its What do they mean by QoS? Is it IntServ, DiffServ, PVCs, the law of averages or

Re: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-15 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, John Kristoff wrote: On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 19:15:49 -0500 (EST) Sean Donelan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ATT, Global Crossing, Level3, MCI, Savvis, Sprint, etc have sold QOS services for years. Level3 says 20% of the traffic over its What do they mean by QoS? Is it

Re: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-15 Thread John Kristoff
On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 03:29:29 + (GMT) Christopher L. Morrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my experience that is easier said than done. However, you remind me of what I think is what most who say they want QoS are really after. DoS protection. By focusing on DoS mitigation instead of

Re: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-15 Thread David Meyer
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 07:34:56PM -0800, David Meyer wrote: On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 03:29:29AM +, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, John Kristoff wrote: On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 19:15:49 -0500 (EST) Sean Donelan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ATT, Global

Re: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-15 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, John Kristoff wrote: On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 03:29:29 + (GMT) Christopher L. Morrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my experience that is easier said than done. However, you remind me of what I think is what most who say they want QoS are really after. DoS

Re: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-15 Thread Marshall Eubanks
Hello Dave; This won't open for me. Do you have a pdf of these slides ? Regards; Marshall On Dec 15, 2005, at 10:39 PM, David Meyer wrote: On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 07:34:56PM -0800, David Meyer wrote: On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 03:29:29AM +, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: On Thu, 15 Dec

Re: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-15 Thread Randy Bush
ah-ha! and here I thought they wanted buzzword compliance :) From what sales/customers say it seems like they have a perception that 'qos will let me use MORE of my too-small pipe' (or not spend as fast on more pipe) more than anything else. and i wonder who is selling that need? randy

Re: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-15 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, Marshall Eubanks wrote: Hello Dave; This won't open for me. Do you have a pdf of these slides ? On Dec 15, 2005, at 10:39 PM, David Meyer wrote: On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 07:34:56PM -0800, David Meyer wrote: On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 03:29:29AM +, Christopher

Re: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-15 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Randy Bush wrote: ah-ha! and here I thought they wanted buzzword compliance :) From what sales/customers say it seems like they have a perception that 'qos will let me use MORE of my too-small pipe' (or not spend as fast on more pipe) more than anything else. and

Re: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-15 Thread David Meyer
On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 03:52:20AM +, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, Marshall Eubanks wrote: Hello Dave; This won't open for me. Do you have a pdf of these slides ? On Dec 15, 2005, at 10:39 PM, David Meyer wrote: On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 07:34:56PM

Re: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-15 Thread Randy Bush
ah-ha! and here I thought they wanted buzzword compliance :) From what sales/customers say it seems like they have a perception that 'qos will let me use MORE of my too-small pipe' (or not spend as fast on more pipe) more than anything else. and i wonder who is selling that need? the wierd

Re: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-15 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Randy Bush wrote: ah-ha! and here I thought they wanted buzzword compliance :) From what sales/customers say it seems like they have a perception that 'qos will let me use MORE of my too-small pipe' (or not spend as fast on more pipe) more than anything else. and i

Re: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-15 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: http://www.secsup.org/files/dmm-queuing.pdf oh firstgrad spelling where ahve you gone? also at: http://www.secsup.org/files/dmm-queueing.pdf incase you type not paste.

RE: Two Tiered Internet

2005-12-14 Thread Hannigan, Martin
--- Joe McGuckin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What good is 6Mbit DSL from my ISP (say, SBC for example) if only a small portion of the net (sites that pay for non-degraded access) loads at a reasonable speed and everything else sucks? There are two possible ways of having a tiered

Re: Two Tiered Internet

2005-12-14 Thread Michael . Dillon
Now that the networks are converging, how do you provide traditional levels of reliability to the different services sharing the same network? Do you want the picture on the TV to stop because you download a big file on your PC? Do you want to be able to make phone calls when your PC is

Re: Two Tiered Internet

2005-12-14 Thread Michael . Dillon
There are two possible ways of having a tiered system - one is to degrade competitors/those who don't pay, and the other is to offer a premium service to those who do pay. The only way I know of to offer a premium service on the same network as a non-premium service is to delay non-premium

RE: Two Tiered Internet

2005-12-14 Thread Neil J. McRae
This unobstructed network was pioneered by Sprint on it's zero-CIR frame relay network and they carried this forward into their IP network as well. Other companies have carried forward this architecture as well. If I understand you correctly I highly doubt this is the case. If every

Re: Two Tiered Internet

2005-12-14 Thread Per Heldal
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 10:54:43 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: But there is another way. If you provide enough bandwidth so that your peak traffic levels can travel through the network without ever being buffered at any of the core network interfaces, then everybody is a king. If you charge

Re: Two Tiered Internet

2005-12-14 Thread Per Heldal
On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 19:12:31 -0800, Joe McGuckin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: What good is 6Mbit DSL from my ISP (say, SBC for example) if only a small portion of the net (sites that pay for non-degraded access) loads at a reasonable speed and everything else sucks? All providers in your

Re: Two Tiered Internet

2005-12-14 Thread David Barak
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Simple. You give the consumer the ability to fiddle with the QoS settings on the provider's edge router interface. After all, they are paying for the access link. eeek! I assume you mean tell the customer what DSCP/whatever settings you honor, and let them

Re: Two Tiered Internet

2005-12-14 Thread Per Heldal
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 04:41:54 -0800 (PST), David Barak [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Simple. You give the consumer the ability to fiddle with the QoS settings on the provider's edge router interface. After all, they are paying for the access link. eeek! I

Re: Two Tiered Internet

2005-12-14 Thread Marshall Eubanks
To me, this seems likely to lead to massive consumer dissatisfaction, and a disaster of the magnitude of the recent Sony CD root exploit fiasco. Typical Pareto distribution models for usage mean that no matter how popular tier 1 sites are, a substantial part of the user time will be spent

Re: Two Tiered Internet

2005-12-14 Thread bmanning
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 04:59:44AM -0500, Hannigan, Martin wrote: Since the model is based around cash, there is no perception except you pay, you get priority. Someone has to pay for the Internet. The users aren't. hum... then what am i getting for my monthly 4000+ bills

Re: Two Tiered Internet

2005-12-14 Thread Michael . Dillon
To let customers decide priorities in your backbone is a bad idea, but I don't think that's the issue here. Assuming the customer's link to the network to be the primary bottleneck; there's nothing wrong with giving customers the ability to prioritise traffic on their link, provided that

Re: Two Tiered Internet

2005-12-14 Thread Joe Maimon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 04:59:44AM -0500, Hannigan, Martin wrote: Since the model is based around cash, there is no perception except you pay, you get priority. Someone has to pay for the Internet. The users aren't. hum... then what am i getting for

RE: Two Tiered Internet

2005-12-14 Thread Schliesser, Benson
Marshall Eubanks wrote: If these don't work, people will complain. Just imagine for a second that cable providers started a service that meant that every channel not owned by, say, Disney, had a bad picture and sound. Would this be good for the cable companies ? Would their customers be

Re: Two Tiered Internet

2005-12-14 Thread Marshall Eubanks
Hello; My experience is that customers won't put a lot of effort into understanding nuances of what they are being offered, that they will always complain to the people they are paying money to, and that if you think that a good use of your bandwidth with your customers (a business's most

Re: Two Tiered Internet

2005-12-14 Thread Daniel Senie
At 05:54 AM 12/14/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are two possible ways of having a tiered system - one is to degrade competitors/those who don't pay, and the other is to offer a premium service to those who do pay. The only way I know of to offer a premium service on the same

RE: Two Tiered Internet

2005-12-14 Thread Hannigan, Martin
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 04:59:44AM -0500, Hannigan, Martin wrote: Since the model is based around cash, there is no perception except you pay, you get priority. Someone has to pay for the Internet. The users aren't. hum... then what am i getting for my monthly 4000+

RE: Two Tiered Internet

2005-12-14 Thread Schliesser, Benson
-prioritizing the basic service. Cheers, -Benson -Original Message- From: Marshall Eubanks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 14 December, 2005 09:36 To: Schliesser, Benson Cc: Per Heldal; NANOG Subject: Re: Two Tiered Internet Hello; My experience is that customers won't put a lot

Re: Two Tiered Internet

2005-12-14 Thread bmanning
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 11:39:51AM -0500, Hannigan, Martin wrote: On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 04:59:44AM -0500, Hannigan, Martin wrote: Since the model is based around cash, there is no perception except you pay, you get priority. Someone has to pay for the Internet. The users

Re: Two Tiered Internet

2005-12-14 Thread Bob Snyder
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since QoS works by degrading the quality of service for some streams of packets in a congestion scenario and since congestion scenarios are most common on end customer links, it makes sense to let the end customers fiddle with the QoS settings in both directions on

Re: Two Tiered Internet

2005-12-14 Thread John Dupuy
At 08:41 AM 12/14/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: QoS is for customers, not for network operators! --Michael Dillon That is probably the best way I have heard it put before! Since network bandwidth is a zero-sum game, QoS is simply a method of handling degraded or congested service in a

Re: Two Tiered Internet

2005-12-14 Thread bmanning
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 09:59:15AM -0800, Bob Snyder wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since QoS works by degrading the quality of service for some streams of packets in a congestion scenario and since congestion scenarios are most common on end customer links, it makes sense to let the

Re: Two Tiered Internet

2005-12-14 Thread Bob Snyder
Daniel Senie wrote: Actually, the cable providers have an alternative. Since the cable network really is broadband in the meaning from before it was coopted to mean high speed, cable operators are able to utilize many channels in parallel. If they want their voice traffic to be unimpeded,

Re: Two Tiered Internet

2005-12-14 Thread Sean Donelan
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: Do you really think the cablecos will be significantly less evil than the telcos? I'm not as optimistic about the result of a legislated duopoly. So far they seem to be not quite so evil (minus their port blocking for some services, and

Re: Two Tiered Internet

2005-12-14 Thread Steve Gibbard
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, Marshall Eubanks wrote: To me, this seems likely to lead to massive consumer dissatisfaction, and a disaster of the magnitude of the recent Sony CD root exploit fiasco. Typical Pareto distribution models for usage mean that no matter how popular tier 1 sites are, a

RE: Two Tiered Internet

2005-12-14 Thread Hannigan, Martin
but do i get the Internet? ... your claim is that No, my claim is that users are not paying the full boat. Almost all the telecoms are still in trouble in one way or another, interest expense, billions $$ in bonds coming due ~2008, etc. They aren't making enough money. That may be a

RE: Two Tiered Internet

2005-12-14 Thread Scott Weeks
- Original Message Follows - From: Schliesser, Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Marshall Eubanks [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Per Heldal [EMAIL PROTECTED], NANOG nanog@merit.edu Subject: RE: Two Tiered Internet Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 10:40:58 -0600 Hi. I agree with your comments re customers

RE: Two Tiered Internet

2005-12-14 Thread Chris Owen
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, Hannigan, Martin wrote: but do i get the Internet? ... your claim is that No, my claim is that users are not paying the full boat. Almost all the telecoms are still in trouble in one way or another, interest expense, billions $$ in bonds coming due ~2008, etc.

Re: Two Tiered Internet

2005-12-14 Thread Michael Loftis
--On December 13, 2005 8:17:43 PM -0800 Tony Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One might argue that in such a situation, the end user is getting less value than they did previously. End users might then either demand a price break or might vote with their connectivity. *IF* they have a

Re: Two Tiered Internet

2005-12-14 Thread Sean Donelan
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but do i get the Internet? ... your claim is that i am not paying for it. my bills indicate that i -am- paying for it. (regardless of priority... after all, the Internet is best-effort ... and w/ QoS, i don't get that

Re: Two Tiered Internet

2005-12-14 Thread Tony Li
The telephone companies are asking for the same ability to sell multiple services over the same physical line. Cable companies didn't make their Internet service slower when they add more private services, why do people expect the telephone companies to make their Internet service worse

Re: Two Tiered Internet

2005-12-14 Thread Sean Donelan
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, Tony Li wrote: Because they're telephone companies. Oh, that's right. I forgot. They're evil. Because they can't manufacture bandwidth that isn't there. Cable co's provide broadband with a fraction of the loop capacity. For telco's to offer premium service, they have

Re: Two Tiered Internet

2005-12-14 Thread bmanning
/business/technology/articles/2005/12/13/ = telecoms_want_their_products_to_travel_on_a_faster_internet/ = = ATT Inc. and BellSouth Corp. are lobbying Capitol Hill for the right = to create a two-tiered Internet, where the telecom carriers' own = Internet services would be transmitted faster and more

Re: Two Tiered Internet

2005-12-14 Thread Tony Li
I guess you missed all those trenches being dug in Verizon land to install fiber to the home. I guess you missed all the network upgrades in ATT/SBC and Bellsouth land to shorten their copper loop distances. Sounds like they are manufacturing more bandwidth and the zero sum game is

Re: Two Tiered Internet

2005-12-14 Thread Jeff McAdams
Tony Li wrote: I guess you missed all those trenches being dug in Verizon land to install fiber to the home. I guess you missed all the network upgrades in ATT/SBC and Bellsouth land to shorten their copper loop distances. Sounds like they are manufacturing more bandwidth and the zero sum

Re: Two Tiered Internet

2005-12-14 Thread Sean Donelan
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, Tony Li wrote: I believe it when it gets to my street. So far, the reality is Really Slow DSL, with service and installation times measured in weeks at costs that aren't competitive. So yes, I missed all of that. There are currently a couple of million IPTV users

Re: Two Tiered Internet

2005-12-14 Thread Jared Mauch
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 05:14:46PM -0800, Tony Li wrote: I guess you missed all those trenches being dug in Verizon land to install fiber to the home. I guess you missed all the network upgrades in ATT/SBC and Bellsouth land to shorten their copper loop distances. Sounds like they

Re: Two Tiered Internet

2005-12-14 Thread Fergie
Marketing. Bah. - ferg -- Sean Donelan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, Tony Li wrote: I believe it when it gets to my street. So far, the reality is Really Slow DSL, with service and installation times measured in weeks at costs that aren't competitive. So yes, I missed all

Re: Two Tiered Internet

2005-12-14 Thread Edward B. Dreger
JM Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 20:45:09 -0500 JM From: Jeff McAdams JM And, at that, only after extracting regulatory concessions at both the JM state and federal levels basically giving them their monopoly back to JM give them incentive to half-*ssed roll out that DSL that is, itself, a JM mere

Re: Two Tiered Internet

2005-12-14 Thread Fergie
You know, I sent an idiotic response to a serious topic, and I shouldn't have -- it is a serious issue which deserves a serious response. Anyone within earshot of The Great State of Texas (tm) should know that the sickening machinations of the incumbent teclo(s) and Cable Co.(s), and their

Re: Two Tiered Internet

2005-12-14 Thread Joe Shen
What I'm interested in is how the two service providers will build a two tiered Internet. To our experience, current QoS mechanism ( WRR + multiple_Queue) could not differentiate service quality when bandwidth is overprivisioned. If there is congestion, why should I stay with it while

Re: Two Tiered Internet

2005-12-14 Thread JC Dill
. The only way the TelCos are going to succeed in developing their two-tiered internet is to provide compelling content only in their premium service. Given that past efforts to produce compelling content available on only one network (anyone remember web portals?) have been dismal failures

RE: Two Tiered Internet

2005-12-14 Thread Hannigan, Martin
What I'm interested in is how the two service providers will build a two tiered Internet. The PSTN is tiered both in architecture and operation. Switching hiearchies and a seperate SS7 network which is basically a billing network. I think the thought is service levels vs. congestion

The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-14 Thread Fergie
guys who think like this. - ferg -- Hannigan, Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I'm interested in is how the two service providers will build a two tiered Internet. The PSTN is tiered both in architecture and operation. Switching hiearchies and a seperate SS7 network which is basically

RE: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-14 Thread Hannigan, Martin
. If the Internet were to work like this, how would we do it? - ferg -- Hannigan, Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I'm interested in is how the two service providers will build a two tiered Internet. The PSTN is tiered both in architecture and operation. Switching hiearchies

RE: Two Tiered Internet

2005-12-14 Thread Randy Bush
I could see an internet hiearchy where preferred traffic was switch onto hicap overflow links with controlled congestion and other traffic, non premium traffic, got a fast busy. given an internet where the congestion is at the edges, where there are no alternate paths, i am not sure i

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2005-12-14 Thread bmanning
somhow, this esacped into a private thread. i'm pretty sure that there is a fairly high thermal component to this thread and not too many photons... so this is it for me on this thread... - Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - You start with a

RE: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-14 Thread Randy Bush
Can we build, pay for, and sustain an Internet that never has congestion or is never busy. s/never/when there are not multiple serious cuts/ would we build a bank where only some of the customers can get their money back? we're selling delivery of packets at some bandwidth. we should

Two Tiered Internet

2005-12-13 Thread Blaine Christian
http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2005/12/13/ telecoms_want_their_products_to_travel_on_a_faster_internet/ My commentary is reserved at this point... but, it does make me shudder.

Re: Two Tiered Internet

2005-12-13 Thread Blaine Christian
Before you complain... It did not require a subscription when I first saw it. On Dec 13, 2005, at 2:56 PM, Blaine Christian wrote: http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2005/12/13/ telecoms_want_their_products_to_travel_on_a_faster_internet/ My commentary is reserved at

Re: Two Tiered Internet

2005-12-13 Thread Sean Donelan
On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Blaine Christian wrote: http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2005/12/13/ telecoms_want_their_products_to_travel_on_a_faster_internet/ My commentary is reserved at this point... but, it does make me shudder. Comcast has been advertising in press releases

Re: Two Tiered Internet

2005-12-13 Thread John Dupuy
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104STORY=/www/story/12-12-2005/0004231957EDATE= Unlike traditional Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) offerings that run on the public Internet, Comcast Digital Voice calls originate and travel over Comcast's advanced, proprietary

Re: Two Tiered Internet

2005-12-13 Thread Joe McGuckin
Sean, I think you are skirting the real issue here. Prioritizing traffic in order to provide reliable transport for isochronous services is one thing; Using QoS features to de-prioritize traffic from a competitor or a company who refuses to pay to access your customers is something completely

Re: Two Tiered Internet

2005-12-13 Thread David Barak
--- Joe McGuckin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What good is 6Mbit DSL from my ISP (say, SBC for example) if only a small portion of the net (sites that pay for non-degraded access) loads at a reasonable speed and everything else sucks? There are two possible ways of having a tiered system -

Re: Two Tiered Internet

2005-12-13 Thread Tony Li
What good is 6Mbit DSL from my ISP (say, SBC for example) if only a small portion of the net (sites that pay for non-degraded access) loads at a reasonable speed and everything else sucks? One might argue that in such a situation, the end user is getting less value than they did

Re: Two Tiered Internet

2005-12-13 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Tony Li wrote: What good is 6Mbit DSL from my ISP (say, SBC for example) if only a small portion of the net (sites that pay for non-degraded access) loads at a reasonable speed and everything else sucks? One might argue that in such a situation, the end user is

Re: Two Tiered Internet

2005-12-13 Thread Marshall Eubanks
I know I would. Regards Marshall On Dec 13, 2005, at 11:17 PM, Tony Li wrote: What good is 6Mbit DSL from my ISP (say, SBC for example) if only a small portion of the net (sites that pay for non-degraded access) loads at a reasonable speed and everything else sucks? One might argue

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