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To: Narotham Reddy who wrote (44995)	4/20/1998 10:55:00 PM
From: Narotham Reddy	Respond to of 61433

Newsworthy - Developing absolute quality [ASND] LANTIMES, 4/13/98 One of the trickiest challenges facing service providers is how to set Quality of Service parameters on their Internet services. To help resolve this issue, Ascend Communications Inc. has developed software that adds IP Layer 3 routing to its ATM and frame-relay switches. Ascend's IP Navigator with Absolute QoS lets providers reserve bandwidth throughout their IP networks for voice, fax, and real-time data transport. Ascend differentiates Absolute QoS from relative QoS, which prioritizes one type of traffic over another but cannot guarantee latency rates. For example, MCI Communications Inc. uses relative QoS to offer two classes of service for traffic traversing its network. "But all MCI can say is if their network gets congested [is that the customer's] traffic will probably be put ahead of other people's traffic who did not pay as much," said John Coons, director and principal analyst at Dataquest Inc. in San Jose, Calif. But with IP Navigator, service providers can dedicate specific bandwidth to different types of traffic flowing across their networks.