The MPLS WG Archive

[Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>]

>>> My point was that even though major transit ISP's (Verio and UUnet) can
>>> control link congestion and transit delay within their networks, can all
>>> your customers (regional ISP's) provide the same level of service to end
>>> users? If no, what can we do about it? One solution may be to create a
>>> MPLS tunnel with bandwidth guarantees from one regional ISP over the
>>> backbones to another regional ISP...
>> and this will manufacture bandwidth?  
> 
> No. But it can provide admission control: if there is a bandwidth
> bottleneck somewhere, don't send the data

this has appeal.  but ecn looks much simpler.

randy