On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 05:06:00PM -0800, Bill Nash wrote: > I find this to be entertaining, since as a VOIP consumer, I'm reimbursing > my ISP for the cost of the traffic as part of my monthly tithe. Why > exactly are networks taking this stance to QoS VOIP traffic, generated by > their customers, into uselessness?
Oh, c'mon, Bill; you *know* why. :-) This goes back to when I ran a Teeny Tiny<tm> ISP in '95 on a 256K DSL link and 40 modems, and got massacred by iPhone: The carriers based their provisioning, and thus pricing, on a traffic engineering model that was reasonable *until the Big New Application became a runaway hit*. You're not paying (at least at the lower levels of the food chain) for what you *could* utilize, you're paying for what you're likely to utilize, *given what the people who set the pricing knew at the time*. Pricing depends on oversubscription; safe oversubscription depends on having a pretty decent handle on the traffic patterns, at the macro level. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer Baylink RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates The Things I Think '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 If you can read this... thank a system administrator. Or two. --me
