Purpose of meeting 1/2
Involved configuration discussion among – vBNS, Abilene, ESNet, MREN, NTON
1). data flow analysis discussions with the application designers to translate their expectations for QoS into network services and capabilities
- When will application be ready?
- Expected duty-cycle for the application?
2). identify site LAN issues for carrying the WAN QoS through to the end systems
3). identify WAN issues:
- hardware needed to provide the QoS services at the sites
- bandwidth allocations needed to support the required QoS
- hardware needed at the peering points to carry QoS across AS domain boundaries