The MPLS WG Archive

["Frank Hujber" <fhujber@hotmail.com>]

Jie has the point. Well said. The IP disciples claim they can do as well as
the SONET disciples, but even they admit, if only implicitly, that the
Internet cannot carry real-time messaging as well as SONET, though I agree
that it is more efficient w.r.t. bandwidth usage. (Consider how much R&D is
going into things like VoIP and RSVP just to make it work for real-time
applications.)

Frank Hujber
----- Original Message -----
From: jie yang ee stnt <jxy9918@oak.njit.edu>
To: <p.trimintzios@eim.surrey.ac.uk>; <G.Cope@ftel.co.uk>
Cc: <mpls@UU.NET>
Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 11:58 AM
Subject: Re: Any SPs using QoS ???


> these days I am watching Olympics online because NBC has a delay of
> 12 hours or more in the coverage. But the Quality is not as good as TV.
> If some ISP could guarantee QoS, could you see the market here in online
live
> video and other potentions? These services are different from those best
effort.
> Curtainly people should pay for it although the charging and pricing
> mechanism is still not clear.
> Another question is if we had sufficient bandwidth, would those QoS
mechanism
> be necessary? My thought is with these mechanisms, ISPs could accomodate
more
> customers and lower their service price so that they can get a good
position
> in competition if those QoS techniques is not too costly. And it can meet
> various demand from various customers.
> Anyway, these factors shall not be concerns of engineers. Since these QoS
> problems exist, we should try to solve. Whether it is promising,
> human history will tell us.
>