[afnog] Bandwidth management

[Mark Tinka]

On Thursday 11 March 2010 10:03:51 pm Kondie Masiye wrote:

> Ladies and gentlemen,
> 
> I am looking for a bandwidth management and packet
>  shaping system for my internet bandwidth. I would like
>  to get opinions, suggestions and recommendations,
>  including what you are using or have experience with in
>  terms of bandwidth and QoS management for a service
>  provider network.

Uncertain whether you're looking at this from a service 
provider or end-user point of view.

If end-user, all the suggestions the others have posted are 
great.

If service provider, I've tended to steer clear of so-called 
bandwidth manager appliances that install between your 
customers and the Internet. They don't scale very well, cost 
tons of money and may not be as fully-featured (e.g., will 
it police IPv6 traffic)? In such a scenario, I've gone with 
bandwidth management features inherent in IP routers. Yes, 
there are a number of considerations when doing this in the 
forwarding path of a router, but overall, it scales much 
better per unit of traffic processed, doesn't necessarily 
cost you extra $$ and integrates with other "cool" functions 
within the platform which you can use for additional revenue 
streams.

Mark.
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