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To: Michael F. Donadio who wrote (19623)	9/14/1999 3:15:00 PM
From: alydar	Respond to of 64865

I personally feel that CSCO now fears SUNW more as a competitor in the internet age than MSFT. That is my initial reaction to the press release. It surely cannot be from a product standpoint. All IMO, Bob.

To: Michael F. Donadio who wrote (19623)	9/14/1999 5:33:00 PM
From: cheryl williamson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Michael, I'm not sure just what this has to do with M$FT. The QoS policies are implemented inside Cisco routers & switches, probably in embedded software. It sounds like M$FT would like to take advantage of rate shaping etal.. but does that mean that no one else would be able to do so???? I find that hard to believe. This looks to me like the operative paragraph here... "This first implementation of the new QoS technology will enable applications to communicate their different transaction types to the network. This is achieved using standard protocols, including RSVP, published in various Internet drafts." So the client-server application uses a high-level protocol to communicate to the switch its transaction-type priorities. This helps to optimize the network through traffic control. Fine. What does that have to do with NT?? Are they saying that ONLY NT can use RSVP???? If it's a standard protocol, anyone can use it. I'm sure Cisco's QoS is reliable enough. I just don't see how this gives Microsoft a leg up on anyone else.