With the convergence of voice, video, and data services, quality of service has become one of the hotest issues this year. A number of solutions have been proposed at various standards bodies including IEEE 802.3, IETF, and ATM Forum. How these different approaches compare or interoperate? Are these approaches realistic for users and at the same time achievable for service providers and network designers? Come to this session to find out.

This talk covers the following topics:

• Ten Networking Trends
• Dime Sale
• Trend 1: Faster Media
• Trend 2: More Traffic
• Trend 3: Traffic > Capacity
• Trend 4: Data > Voice
• Trend 5: ATM in Backbone
• ATM QoS
• IEEE 802.1D Model
• IP vs ATM
• Old House vs New House
• Trend 6: Everything over IP
• Integrated Services
• Before Marriage
• After Marriage
• Problems with IntServ+RSVP
• Trend 7: Differentiation Not Integration
• Problems with DiffServ
• Trend 8: Back to Routing From Switching
• Multiprotocol Label Switching
• Trend 9: Traffic Engineering
• Traffic Engineering Components
• MPLS Mechanisms for TE
• QoS Design Approaches
• Comparison of QoS Approaches
• 10. Other Trends
• Summary
• References
• Acronyms

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