Application Level Routing in a Mesh Router?

Posted by Cliff on Monday May 2, 2005 @11:32AM from the intelligent-packet-control dept.

faisaladeem asks: "Are there such mesh routers that can re-route the traffic based on QoS? (I'm not talking about traffic shaping) For example, if data rate of a video stream decreases due to an increase in congestion along the path then the router will re-route the stream dynamically to a different path to ensure the QoS for the video traffic. Since a mesh network has many paths or routes, it can be assumed that a less congestive path can be found if the existing path becomes bandwidth constrained. I heard that MPLS supports this kind of functionality? Secondly, can a router estimate the latency/bandwidth on a specific route ?"

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Anybody finds this interesting? by int19h · 2005-05-02 11:59 · Score: 0, Troll

Okay, I admit that I find several other areas more interesting than networking, so I'm biased.

But I still can't help wondering; are there anybody here that really finds this question interesting? :-)