Are there no boat races going on or what, this is the most I've heard out of the Kunze for a couple of years it seems. Did your number change ?
---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: RickG <rgunder...@gmail.com> Reply-To: WISPA General List <wireless@wispa.org> Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 01:07:40 -0400 >It sounds like it has improved somewhat from when I was using the Allot box >back in '97. It would be nice if there was more automation in the process. > >On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Rick Kunze <rku...@colusanet.com> wrote: > >> It's been a lengthy learning curve, I've been forming this mechanism >> since around 2001 but it all works very well now. I use 5 levels of >> priority for customers, Level 0 through Level 4. Level 5 is for >> special use when needed and 6 is infrastructure equipment. Level 7 >> (top level) is reserved so I can reach things in the event of some >> other host or interface causing a packet storm or the like. >> >> Then the balancing act is grouping day-user businesses with >> night-user residentials, or whatever is needed to lump all customers >> into a few smaller groups. Then the total bandwidth is partitioned >> into the same number of slices as there are groups of >> customers. This becomes the CIR but is fundamentally based on >> priority. The burst then comes in from the scattering of priority >> levels within each group. Basically residentials are sacraficed >> during the week days for any other higher priority packet. But >> ceilings are also put in place to keep any one customer from sucking >> all the Ether out of the wire. That's also inherent in the grouping >> strategy. >> >> It's always a moving target though, and needs re-shuffling from time >> to time as the usage patterns of some users change over time. >> >> Some groups are geographical, but mostly it's random based on usage >> patterns. What I've seen change the most over the last 6-12 months >> especially is that residential is overtaking business. The night >> time bandwidth demands are equal to and starting to exceed daytime >> business demands. The former having ramped up considerably lately >> with movies and the like. A streaming Netflix standard def movie is >> roughly a 1.2 meg stream for a couple hours, but the "duty cycle" as >> I like to call it is only about 50% to 80%. >> >> Rk >> >> >> >> At 08:53 AM 3/30/2011, you wrote: >> >Rick, Thats great! The real trick is can you prioritize AND bill >> accordingly? >> > >> >On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Rick Kunze >> ><<mailto:rku...@colusanet.com>rku...@colusanet.com> wrote: >> >At 10:37 AM 3/29/2011, you wrote: >> > >Wow that would be cool. Now just to find a device which can split >> > >all that out easily and maintain accounting. >> > >> >I have this all automatically controlled with a Packeteer. Eight >> >levels of priority with "on the fly" per packet control, partitioning >> >of bandwidth, and the ability to control both priority and volume on >> >a per customer basis, right down to the actual type of traffic such >> >as www or smtp, or Citrix, or you name it. Traffic discovery, makes >> >graphs, runs scripts to change things on weekends for example, all >> >kinds of features. >> > >> >These things are cheap on Ebay. >> > >> >Rk >> > >> >> >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >> http://signup.wispa.org/ >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org >> >> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> >> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >> > > > >-- >-RickG > > > ________________________________________________________________ Sent via the WebMail system at avolve.net -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
