Warren Wilder wrote:
I suppose everybody has heard of QoS ( Quality of Service) once or twice. It allows applications to request a certain level of quality from the various network nodes that will be handling their traffic.
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This is just an example. I am curious whether there is a way to watch (preferably graphical) the shapes of the traffic I am causing, around the globe. Warren
I used to work in the IP networking world and I would surmise that there are indeed applications which allow a user to view such information. If you take a look at Cisco's or Juniper's web sites (these are the two "big" boys when it comes to the infrastructure switches used in the IP world) I'm sure they can supply management tools to do just what you ask. However, there are two main problems I can forsee:
1. Security. The NMS/Traffic tools are an integral part of the carriers' network infrastructure and I'd be almost certain that you could not gain access to that information unless you were "on the inside". These tools do multiple functions such as: reporting, configuration and inventory management.
2. Cost. These tools are high value, high support, high license cost items. If you have $100k+ to spend than you could probably buy one. But you wouldn't be able to connect it to the routers because of (1) above.
Of course, I may be completely wrong and someone might have written a Java/PHP/C++(insert your language of choice here) SNMP manager which can get onto the 'net and identify trouble spots. I haven't heard of one, but then I've never looked :-)
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