[afnog] Bandwidth management

[Kondie Masiye]

Hi Mark,

It is from a service provider perspective. And my routing platform is mainly
Huawei.

What sort of "considerations" would I be looking at if I wanted to go with
the routing platform way?

Thanks for the pointers.

Regards,

Kondie

On 11 March 2010 17:58, 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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