Quality of Service and Class of Service are designed to make the net a better place to be. They have been implemented by Cisco, Nortel, Microsoft, Linux, HP, Extreme, (insert nearly every network vendor/os on planet).
I want to be able prioritize my real time traffic over my non-interactive traffic. I want my internet game packets to have higher priority than my email.
ISPs are going to use this technology to better manage the traffic flowing across their networks. They'd be stupid to start blocking access to content from a legal and PR nightmare standpoint.
This stuff has been around since the start of IPv4 (ToS bits, now Diff-Serv) and is finally being implemented.
Check out http://www.qosforum.com if you want actual information about these technologies, not FUD.
Or check out the ietf DiffServ, MPLS, or IEEE 802.1p/q pages if you want to see why so much effort has been put into these technologies by the standards bodies and the commercial and non-commercial OS/network vendors.
Note: I work for a company who tries to educate and explain new internet technologies. The website above is one that I am the network admin for.
QoS/CoS are used to provide better service to certain classes of applications or certain users.
This kind of technology is required fo quite a few technologies to work well. VoIP, streaming audio/video.
It is not an evil technolog. QoS is in linux, windows2000, most routers, many switches. This technology is vital to the growth of the net.
This technology will let you say: I want to pay an extra $20 a month and get better service across your backbone. Or I want my quake traffic to have priority over my email. Or I want to dedicate 128k of this cable modem link to this video stream.
This does mean the net becomes unfair. Too bad. It's unfair now. If you connect to UUnet, you can get access to content not available elsewhere. AOL? same thing, @Home? yep. As an Epoch customer I can't access that @home content. Oh well.
ISPs are not in the game of blocking their customers access to online content. If they start to do this they hit all kinds of legal and PR problems.
Check out some qos related site like:
http://www.qosforum.com
if you want to read up on what this technology is good for, not the FUD running around this group.
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The third company would have all of microsofts internet properties as well (MSN, blah blah). Does anyone here read source content?
Iridium uses sat based switching. Globarstar uses all ground based switching.
Quality of Service and Class of Service are designed to make the net a better place to be. They have been implemented by Cisco, Nortel, Microsoft, Linux, HP, Extreme, (insert nearly every network vendor/os on planet).
I want to be able prioritize my real time traffic over my non-interactive traffic. I want my internet game packets to have higher priority than my email.
ISPs are going to use this technology to better manage the traffic flowing across their networks. They'd be stupid to start blocking access to content from a legal and PR nightmare standpoint.
This stuff has been around since the start of IPv4 (ToS bits, now Diff-Serv) and is finally being implemented.
Check out http://www.qosforum.com if you want actual information about these technologies, not FUD.
Or check out the ietf DiffServ, MPLS, or IEEE 802.1p/q pages if you want to see why so much effort has been put into these technologies by the standards bodies and the commercial and non-commercial OS/network vendors.
Note: I work for a company who tries to educate and explain new internet technologies. The website above is one that I am the network admin for.
QoS/CoS are used to provide better service to certain classes of applications or certain users.
This kind of technology is required fo quite a few technologies to work well. VoIP, streaming audio/video.
It is not an evil technolog. QoS is in linux, windows2000, most routers, many switches. This technology is vital to the growth of the net.
This technology will let you say: I want to pay an extra $20 a month and get better service across your backbone. Or I want my quake traffic to have priority over my email. Or I want to dedicate 128k of this cable modem link to this video stream.
This does mean the net becomes unfair. Too bad. It's unfair now. If you connect to UUnet, you can get access to content not available elsewhere. AOL? same thing, @Home? yep. As an Epoch customer I can't access that @home content. Oh well.
ISPs are not in the game of blocking their customers access to online content. If they start to do this they hit all kinds of legal and PR problems.
Check out some qos related site like:
http://www.qosforum.com
if you want to read up on what this technology is good for, not the FUD running around this group.