William Chops Westfield wrote:

> There is a lot of interest in latency/QoS for packet networks (again
> driving up prices), but it's not clear to me to what extent that is
> truly important, especially when it seems to be much easier to step
> up bandwidth of packet links compared to TDM-style links (consider
> ISDN vs DSL, for instance.  Or token ring vs ethernet (guaranteed
> latency used to be a big selling point for 4mbit and 16mbit token
> ring networks.  Ethernet was "too unpredictable."  And then came
> 100Mbit ethernet..))
> 
> BillW

Well, voice and latency/unpredictability don't mix.
Either you profile all your customers and size accordingly  or traffic 
shape at the endpoints or keep separate networks at the transport level or ?
Bandwidth isn't free, otherwise our ISPs wouldn't be throttling all the 
P2P packets :)
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