[e2e] [SPAM] - Re: number of flows per unit time in routers - Email has different SMTP TO: and MIME TO: fields in the email addresses

[Clark Gaylord]

Alper Kamil Demir wrote:

> Ping,
> >It sounds like I am trying to bring back the "bad" memory of
> >RSVP/IntServ/QoS from the 90's, well... they are not needed in the
> >over-provisioned core. ;-) A paper from Sprint research a while back
> >had proved that with minor overprovisioning per link, there would be no
> >need for QoS in the core. The newly built Comcast IP backbone is all
> >over provisioned... What traffic engineering? ;-)
> I appreciate if you could point out the reference of Sprint paper. I 
> wonder what had been proved. Overprovisioning is an easy way to have 
> the Internet work with some application domain; is not a way to 
> provide QoS; is a type of QoS. 


The other thing you need for that to work is that core link speeds are 
faster than access speeds, but with that assumption it doesn't take long 
to get to this conclusion.

--ckg