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ISSUES
& INSIGHTS
Making
the Most of Your Backbone Provider
With the quality of your ISP service heavily relying on the effectiveness of your backbone
provider(s), arming yourself and researching backbone providers essential. If their
architectures are up-and-running at high speeds, your customers are generally happy.
However, dependable backbone service often relies on aspects you have no control
over--network capacity, latency, network speed, bandwidth, peering arrangements,
redundancy, expertise of staff, etc . . .
Need QoS in
your IP backbone?
Quality of service has emerged as a salient architectural
element missing from today's IP-based backbone networks. Yet it's clear that, so far, the
lack of QoS has not dimmed IP's prospects for global domination. So how seriously should
you take warnings that, without a workable standard for QoS very soon, prospects for
converging IP-based data and voice traffic are doomed?
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