From: Jay R. Ashworth (no email)
Date: Fri Apr 01 2005 - 11:42:25 EST
On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 05:06:00PM -0800, Bill Nash wrote:
> I find this to be entertaining, since as a VOIP consumer, I'm reimbursing
> my ISP for the cost of the traffic as part of my monthly tithe. Why
> exactly are networks taking this stance to QoS VOIP traffic, generated by
> their customers, into uselessness?
Oh, c'mon, Bill; you *know* why. :-)
This goes back to when I ran a Teeny Tiny<tm> ISP in '95 on a 256K DSL
link and 40 modems, and got massacred by iPhone:
The carriers based their provisioning, and thus pricing, on a traffic
engineering model that was reasonable *until the Big New Application
became a runaway hit*.
You're not paying (at least at the lower levels of the food chain) for
what you *could* utilize, you're paying for what you're likely to
utilize, *given what the people who set the pricing knew at the time*.
Pricing depends on oversubscription; safe oversubscription depends on
having a pretty decent handle on the traffic patterns, at the macro
level.
Cheers,
-- jra
-- Jay R. Ashworth Designer Baylink RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates The Things I Think '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 If you can read this... thank a system administrator. Or two. --me
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