Ok so I pay you the extra to guarantee a certain minimum latency. I if I
am connecting to a server on another network how will you provide that? You
can not set the QoS for someone else's network much less 3 or 4 of them that
my traffic has to cross to get to is final destination.
Jory Privett
WCCS
----- Original Message -----
From: "Forrest W. Christian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 3:07 PM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Feds OK fee for priority Web traffic
Jory Privett wrote:
Be careful what you wish for. What happens when your upstream say that
your traffic goes to the bottom of queue unless you pay an extra
$x,xxx.xx per moth? Will that make your customers happy? Can you
afford an extra charge to make sure that your address space is in the
fast lane?
I expect that 99% of the web traffic will continue exactly as it is....
The whole point of this is that customers are more and more demanding QoS
guarantees that are almost impossible to produce without being able to
charge more for them, and for some applications are required.
I'll give you an example.... VoIP. In order for it to work well, VoIP
packets need to be given priority. Unfortunately if you don't charge
extra for this priority traffic, then a certain segment of your customer
base will figure out how to tag *all* of their packets for priority use.
Gaming would be another example. During peak usage times, gamers suffer
since latency goes up slightly just because links are in use. If the
gamer (or a large gaming server) wants to pay extra for a latency
guarantee (delivered by prioritizing packets ahead of others), then so be
it.
It is extremely costly to provide a network which will provide *at all
times* extremely low latency and jitter for *all* traffic. What most
providers want to be able to do is to say to customers, "if a little added
jitter and latency during peak times is unacceptable, then pay us extra
for that traffic and we will guarantee that it will be put at the first of
the line. If you don't pay us extra, your experience will continue to be
about what it is today".
-forrest
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