Re: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-18 Thread Chris Woodfield
One thing to note here is that while VoIP flows are low volume on a bits-per-second basis, they push substantially more packets per kilobit than other traffic types - as much as 50pps per 82Kbps flow. And I have seen cases of older line cards approaching their pps limits when handling

Re: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-18 Thread Joe Maimon
Chris Woodfield wrote: One thing to note here is that while VoIP flows are low volume on a bits-per-second basis, they push substantially more packets per kilobit than other traffic types - as much as 50pps per 82Kbps flow. And I have seen cases of older line cards approaching their

Re: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-18 Thread tony sarendal
On 18/12/05, Chris Woodfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One thing to note here is that while VoIP flows are low volume on abits-per-second basis, they push substantially more packets per kilobit than other traffic types - as much as 50pps per 82Kbps flow.And I have seen cases of older line cards

Re: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-18 Thread Jay Hennigan
Joe Maimon wrote: Chris Woodfield wrote: One thing to note here is that while VoIP flows are low volume on a bits-per-second basis, they push substantially more packets per kilobit than other traffic types - as much as 50pps per 82Kbps flow. And I have seen cases of older line cards

Re: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-18 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Sun, 18 Dec 2005, Joe Maimon wrote: Something about intelligent edges? The payload length of voip applications often has a lot to do with rtt. Adapting payload length to the actuall average rtt could have a positive effect on pps throughput. What is your suggestion? High latency

Re: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-18 Thread Joe Maimon
Jay Hennigan wrote: VoIP by design will have high PPS per connection as opposed to data flows. At 20 ms sample rates you have 50 pps regardless of the CODEC or algorithm. Increasing the time per sample to 40 ms would cut this in half but the added latency would result in degraded

Re: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-18 Thread Joe Maimon
Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: On Sun, 18 Dec 2005, Joe Maimon wrote: Something about intelligent edges? The payload length of voip applications often has a lot to do with rtt. Adapting payload length to the actuall average rtt could have a positive effect on pps throughput. What is your

Re: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-16 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: ah-ha! and here I thought they wanted buzzword compliance :) From what sales/customers say it seems like they have a perception that 'qos will let me use MORE of my too-small pipe' (or not spend as fast on more pipe) more than anything else.

RE: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-16 Thread a.harrowell
Yes. Best effort should be something to aspire to, not worse than carrier grade -Original Message- From: Sean Donelan[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 16/12/2005 00:15:49 To: nanog@merit.edunanog@merit.edu Cc: Subject: RE: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet] On Thu, 15 Dec 2005

Re: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-16 Thread Mark Smith
On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 04:16:17 + (GMT) Christopher L. Morrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: http://www.secsup.org/files/dmm-queuing.pdf oh firstgrad spelling where ahve you gone? also at: http://www.secsup.org/files/dmm-queueing.pdf

Re: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-16 Thread Michael . Dillon
most large networks (as was said a few times I think) don't really need it in their cores. I think I've seen a nice presentation regarding the queuing delay induced on 'large pipe' networks, basically showing that qos is pointless if your links are +ds3 and not 100% full. Someone might

Re: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-16 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake Mikael Abrahamsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: ah-ha! and here I thought they wanted buzzword compliance :) From what sales/customers say it seems like they have a perception that 'qos will let me use MORE of my too-small pipe' (or not spend

Re: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-16 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Stephen Sprunk wrote: Adaptive jitter buffers are old technology; Skype is hardly the first company to use them. Most phones and softphones have them; it's the gateways at the other end that are usually stuck with static ones. Personally I find the delay of the

RE: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-16 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Min Qiu wrote: Hi Chris, hey :) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Christopher L. Morrow Sent: Thu 12/15/2005 10:29 PM To: John Kristoff Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet] snip

Re: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-16 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday 14 December 2005 23:31, Randy Bush wrote: would we build a bank where only some of the customers can get their money back? Not taking into account the FDIC, we already have that, since banks are only required to keep 10% of any given depositor's monies. we're selling delivery

Re: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-16 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake Christopher L. Morrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Min Qiu wrote: Not 100% true. Through I agree QoS has little impact in the core that has OCxx non-congested backbone (more comments below). In the edge, it does has its place, as Stephen Sprunk and Mikael Abrahamsson

RE: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-16 Thread Sean Donelan
On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: Maybe part of the discussion problem here is the overbroad use of 'QOS in the network!' ? Perhaps saying, which I think people have, that QOS Probably. Users, executives and reporters are rarely careful talking about the technical details.

RE: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-16 Thread Fergie
Sean, And let's see: What was the problem again? ;-) Oh, yeah -- some telco execs want to degrade traffic in their networks based on __. (Fill in the blank.) - ferg -- Sean Donelan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: Maybe part of the

Re: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-16 Thread Fergie
Bingo. Very well stated. - ferg -- Lamar Owen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] On the operational end, the challenge becomes designing networks that in the presence of ubiquitous oversubscription degrade gracefully and allow certain features to have lesser degradation. Thus QoS. [snip]

RE: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-15 Thread Schliesser, Benson
some harsher labels for it, too. Cheers, -Benson -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Randy Bush Sent: Wednesday, 14 December, 2005 22:32 To: Hannigan, Martin Cc: Fergie; nanog@merit.edu Subject: RE: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered

RE: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-15 Thread Hannigan, Martin
Randy- I don't think your bank analogy is very strong, but never mind that. I agree with what you're saying in principle, that if a user/customer buys bit delivery at a fixed rate then we should deliver it. But isn't that the point. You can't guarantee delivery, just as you can't

RE: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-15 Thread Schliesser, Benson
To: Schliesser, Benson; Randy Bush Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: RE: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet] Randy- I don't think your bank analogy is very strong, but never mind that. I agree with what you're saying in principle, that if a user/customer buys bit delivery at a fixed

Re: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-15 Thread Kevin
On 12/15/05, Hannigan, Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But isn't that the point. You can't guarantee delivery, just as you can't guarantee you won't get a busy signal when you make a call. Absolutely. But if the carrier tunes their network so you will never get a busy signal when calling into

RE: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-15 Thread Fergie
Hi Benson, Okay -- forget about banks, forget about other comparative analogies -- let's talk about the Internet. I think Bill Manning hit on it a couple of days ago; Bill said something about the Internet being about best effort and QoS should be (various) levels of 'better-than-best effort'

RE: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-15 Thread Sean Donelan
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, Fergie wrote: I think Bill Manning hit on it a couple of days ago; Bill said something about the Internet being about best effort and QoS should be (various) levels of 'better-than-best effort' -- and anything less that best effort is _not_ the Internet. ATT, Global

Re: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-15 Thread John Kristoff
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 19:15:49 -0500 (EST) Sean Donelan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ATT, Global Crossing, Level3, MCI, Savvis, Sprint, etc have sold QOS services for years. Level3 says 20% of the traffic over its What do they mean by QoS? Is it IntServ, DiffServ, PVCs, the law of averages or

Re: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-15 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, John Kristoff wrote: On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 19:15:49 -0500 (EST) Sean Donelan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ATT, Global Crossing, Level3, MCI, Savvis, Sprint, etc have sold QOS services for years. Level3 says 20% of the traffic over its What do they mean by QoS? Is it

Re: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-15 Thread John Kristoff
On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 03:29:29 + (GMT) Christopher L. Morrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my experience that is easier said than done. However, you remind me of what I think is what most who say they want QoS are really after. DoS protection. By focusing on DoS mitigation instead of

Re: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-15 Thread David Meyer
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 07:34:56PM -0800, David Meyer wrote: On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 03:29:29AM +, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, John Kristoff wrote: On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 19:15:49 -0500 (EST) Sean Donelan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ATT, Global

Re: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-15 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, John Kristoff wrote: On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 03:29:29 + (GMT) Christopher L. Morrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my experience that is easier said than done. However, you remind me of what I think is what most who say they want QoS are really after. DoS

Re: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-15 Thread Marshall Eubanks
Hello Dave; This won't open for me. Do you have a pdf of these slides ? Regards; Marshall On Dec 15, 2005, at 10:39 PM, David Meyer wrote: On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 07:34:56PM -0800, David Meyer wrote: On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 03:29:29AM +, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: On Thu, 15 Dec

Re: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-15 Thread Randy Bush
ah-ha! and here I thought they wanted buzzword compliance :) From what sales/customers say it seems like they have a perception that 'qos will let me use MORE of my too-small pipe' (or not spend as fast on more pipe) more than anything else. and i wonder who is selling that need? randy

Re: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-15 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, Marshall Eubanks wrote: Hello Dave; This won't open for me. Do you have a pdf of these slides ? On Dec 15, 2005, at 10:39 PM, David Meyer wrote: On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 07:34:56PM -0800, David Meyer wrote: On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 03:29:29AM +, Christopher

Re: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-15 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Randy Bush wrote: ah-ha! and here I thought they wanted buzzword compliance :) From what sales/customers say it seems like they have a perception that 'qos will let me use MORE of my too-small pipe' (or not spend as fast on more pipe) more than anything else. and

Re: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-15 Thread David Meyer
On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 03:52:20AM +, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, Marshall Eubanks wrote: Hello Dave; This won't open for me. Do you have a pdf of these slides ? On Dec 15, 2005, at 10:39 PM, David Meyer wrote: On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 07:34:56PM

Re: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-15 Thread Randy Bush
ah-ha! and here I thought they wanted buzzword compliance :) From what sales/customers say it seems like they have a perception that 'qos will let me use MORE of my too-small pipe' (or not spend as fast on more pipe) more than anything else. and i wonder who is selling that need? the wierd

Re: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-15 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Randy Bush wrote: ah-ha! and here I thought they wanted buzzword compliance :) From what sales/customers say it seems like they have a perception that 'qos will let me use MORE of my too-small pipe' (or not spend as fast on more pipe) more than anything else. and i

Re: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-15 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: http://www.secsup.org/files/dmm-queuing.pdf oh firstgrad spelling where ahve you gone? also at: http://www.secsup.org/files/dmm-queueing.pdf incase you type not paste.

The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-14 Thread Fergie
Martin, You can 'see' anything you'd like, buy your reality does not match everyone else's -- my opinion, of course. QoS is a myth -- it doesn't exist. What you're obviosuly trying to tell us is that less-than-best- effort is somehow good? Never sell it. This vein will come back and bite you

RE: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-14 Thread Hannigan, Martin
Hey there Fergie: Martin, You can 'see' anything you'd like, buy your reality does not match everyone else's -- my opinion, of course. QoS is a myth -- it doesn't exist. What you're obviosuly trying to tell us is that less-than-best- effort is somehow good? Never sell it. This

RE: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-14 Thread Randy Bush
Can we build, pay for, and sustain an Internet that never has congestion or is never busy. s/never/when there are not multiple serious cuts/ would we build a bank where only some of the customers can get their money back? we're selling delivery of packets at some bandwidth. we should