Re: QOS

Kyle Platts (kwplat1@reliant.uswc.uswest.com)
Mon, 14 Jul 97 10:08:58 -0500

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> Here's the situation. Just got of the phone after a 3 hr=20
> conversation with my boss who wants to implement Quality Of =
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> for our customers. Ie: You pay us more money, we give you a =
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> priority going through the great packet trasher in the sky. =
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> all fine and dandy. Any one have the faintest clue as to how I =
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> pull this off? We've got 3 pm2e30s connected to an ether hub,=20=

> connected to a Cisco 4000 (running 11.2, but I'll run anything, =
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> apple sauce if I can solve this problem :)). The egress is a =
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> port on the 4000 connected to another 4000, which is not in my=20=

> control.

>Interesting...I'd love to know how to implement such in a =
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Hi, I know how to do this. I'm not sure if it's profitable or not =
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Cascade Communications Switches support QOS already. There is also =
a packet priority option.

So here's how you can do it.

Buy a Cascade 9000 $250,000
Cascadeview Software $ 15,000
Babysitter (Me) $100,000/year

Viola, problem solved. :-)

Kyle Platts
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