[tsvwg] Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: [gwhiteCL/NQBdraft] Should traffic protection be mandatory to implement? (Issue #48)

["Livingood, Jason" <[e-mail]>]

> A better example would be an NQB queue in ISP access network equipment a few hops away from the subscriber where the traffic in the NQB queue is from multiple users.

[JL] First hop access gear would typically still have per user/device/home flow boundaries – for example limiting home-1 to 300 Mbps per their service tier and home-2 to 1 Gbps, home-3 to 500 Mbps, and so on. Those users cannot exceed their service plan limits and take bandwidth from other users. If they consistently have high utilization that causes congestion at the aggregation point, the capacity monitoring systems would automatically trigger a normal capacity augmentation process. The second hop, just after that access aggregator would typically have extraordinary capacity and never experience congestion unless there was something extraordinary like one or more fiber cuts in a regional network.

[JL] In any case, the user/device/home cannot exceed the bandwidth they have been provisioned. And if they do use a lot of their provisioned bandwidth, that seems fine – as it is what they have paid for.