No, we have loads of bandwidth, but I have heard some people, including Cisco Engineers claim that bandwidth won't solve your delay problems.
On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 15:23, Kent Yu wrote: > Jay, > > Does this mean you have determined your network is the bottleneck of your > http traffic? > If you think the congestion in your network is slowing down the response > time, then doing the QoS stuff surely will help, of course, as long as the > traffic stays within your network, > but why adding bandwidth to solve the congestion problem is not a choice? I > think it is better than playing with QoS. > If you want to go down this road, you may also want to make sure the users > could verify that your network is not slowing down their http traffic, if > you only prioritize http, the users may use ping to verify the response. you > could add icmp to high priority too, but why not just giving icmp a high > priority, this way they will always see your network is responding pretty > quick :-). > > I think there are some networks are selling QoS as a service, but IMHO if > you just want to improve the response time, it may not be worth the trouble. > > Just my .02 > > Kent > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jay Greenberg" > To: > Sent: Friday, July 26, 2002 9:49 AM > Subject: ISP QoS Architecture Question [7:49767] > > > > I am considering deploying QoS features in our ISP. The ISP has about > > 60 thousand users in total, and I was thinking of setting a general > > traffic policy. E.g., I would like to set HTTP traffic down to a very > > low delay, to make the network seem faster to end users. I suppose > > what I am asking is - has anyone done this for an ISP, and if so, how > > did it turn out? > > > > > > Jay Greenberg Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=50047&t=49767 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
