[afnog] Bandwidth management

[Kondie Masiye]

To all,

Thank you very much for your responses. I need to look at the various
products and solutions provided and may get back to you with more questions.

Regards,

Kondie

On 11 March 2010 18:14, Peter Nyamukusa <peternyamukusa at gmail.com> wrote:

> I use Cisco QoS with DSCP on Routers and 802.1p on Switches and graph the
> devices using Cacti.  migrated a couple of years ago from ET-Bandwidth
> Manager
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 6:58 PM, Mark Tinka <mtinka at globaltransit.net>wrote:
>
>> 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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> Peter Nyamukusa
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