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Originally Posted by darthlinux
I dont see this working really as when they are back on normal speed its gonna happen again and again it will be a 10mb service with bursts of 50mb or whatever the package the customer is on
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It only kicks in when the network is congested, and doesn't reduce to a set speed but deprioritises traffic so that people managed can soak up the left over bandwidth from non-managed people.
Port capacity, upstream and downstream, is dynamically monitored and when it nears congestion the management kicks in.
Sadly this costs a little money and requires a clue to set up as opposed to the couple of lines of config on a uBR that VM's STM uses.
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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
comcast were forced into this so bear that in mind, if our regulators acted in the same way over here our isps would also be using better methods.
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They weren't forced into this but they originally managed on an application basis and were told that wasn't acceptable. They could have gone with a fixed STM but decided on this more dynamic approach.
As you can probably tell I'm not a fan of blunt force caps but am a fan of thought out and more flexible approaches. If the capacity is there why not use it rather than treating everyone in the same way whether or not their area is congested?