 funchordsHelloPremium,MVM join:2001-03-11 Yarmouth Port, MA kudos:5 | reply to fAcEtIOUs
Re: A word on QOS and prioritization Overbooking is fine, but you have to manage that so that you are capable of keeping up with your obligations with some degree of certainty.
I've asked before if there's a standard for managing overbooking so that customers still get the bandwidth when they demand it, but it seems that there isn't or people don't know what it is.
For Comcast -- maybe for Cable MSOs as a category -- the wheels of management have left the track. Telcos have arranged their business differently. It's still shared bandwidth, but there are more people in a much bigger pool and they seem able to hit their targets much more often than Cable can. -- Robb Topolski -= funchords.com =- Hillsboro, Oregon HTTP is the new Bandwidth Hog...
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