Re: Reg: Quality of Service routing

Bala Rajagopalan <braja@ccrl.nj.nec.com> Mon, 21 December 1998 23:40 UTC

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From: Bala Rajagopalan <braja@ccrl.nj.nec.com>
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To: Roch Guerin <guerin@ee.upenn.edu>
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Subject: Re: Reg: Quality of Service routing
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Roch Guerin wrote:
> 
> Raghu V.V.J Vadapalli wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> Besides the delay issue that Tony mentions, you should also consider
> that tx bandwidth is not the only resource inolved in delivering your
> data.  You also need switches/routers that can keep up with the
> bandwidth, and if they don't they are the resource you need to focus on,
> i.e., you need to consider the forwarding tput available rather than
> just the raw bandwidth.
> 
> Roch

I'd assume that if abundant bw is available then the routers will
also be big and obese. 

but I don't believe (or at least like to believe) in the premise that a
network can be economically maintained at low utilizations all the time 
thus obviating need for proper engineering and intelligent routing. 

regards,

Bala