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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (3354)	12/5/1998 10:15:00 PM
From: neverenough	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

Frank, Seems your views are very similar to the article I posted. But what about quality of service? Most everyone believes that service is a good thing, but so far the only real answer has been to throw bandwidth at the problem. What's wrong with that? Why can't we all just have a big, fat pipe that provides all the bandwidth we ever need? Although fiber optic cable itself might be relatively cheap, configuring and provisioning a broadband data service is still very expensive. The cost of construction, transmission infrastructure, subscriber equipment, and ongoing expenses like customer support and billing relegate the prospects for "free bandwidth" to the wishful thinking category. But more important, without service mechanisms, it is impossible to create tiered services and corresponding price structures. With service and price discrimination come true incentives for bandwidth efficiency. Business customers, in particular, need a network that can be a viable conduit for the delivery of all types of applications. And this means serving up the right amount of bandwidth for each application. With service technology and tiered services, customers will be able to pay a premium for critical services and send the less urgent stuff at bulk rates. My question to you is how will they deploy quality of service? Will it be through bandwidth management devices that will manage the flow of TCP/IP traffic, or maybe P-NAP's(Private Network Access Points), and how will this affect the average user...