RE: IP QoS issues

["Constantine Protopapas" <wiztech at cmpnetmail.com>]

> Given that Internet service provisioning on an Internet backbone doesn't
> NEED SVCs, this is a vacuuous argument.  The Internet backbone also
> doesn't route SNA or X.25, either.
>
> > I agree that the "CHURN rate" is the major thing to look
> > when talking about speed and possible bottlenecks.
>
> True.  I think that you have an incomplete understanding on how today's
> production Internet backbones are put together and work.  The questions
> you're asking might be interesting, but the likely have only passing
> revelence to today's practice, or perhaps even for the next 6 or 9 months
> at least.
Maybe so. But as an systems/network engineer, i get asked a lot about these
things, so I want to clear out what's going on.

Constantine Protopapas
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