[afnog] QoS/TE

[Phil Regnauld]

On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 05:35:38PM +0200, Mark Tinka wrote:
> Hi all.
> 
> I've been thinking about this a great deal (and following 
> a similar discussion on the nanog forum).
> 
> Is QoS/TE in the core really necessary. I mean, like Joel 
> mentioned some time before AfNOG-2005, aside from your 
> edge (customer) and upstream links, what other links does 
> a network expect to really saturate if engineered well?

	Considering the capacity of most modern core equipment,
	I tend to say avoid QoS there.  It's usually cheaper
	to upgrade the core than to deploy QoS (including: analysis,
	prioritization definitions / tagging, feedback, followup).