12 Dec
2017
12 Dec
'17
7:28 a.m.
From: Steve Johnson
Recently I've been attempting to Skype on a group
call with 5 people in
Europe. I would LOVE to have a guaranteed bandwidth for my call.
The Internet engineering community did quite a bit of work on resource
guarantees. (Google 'IntServ' and 'RSVP' - the latter is the control
protocol.)
Unfortunately, there was never much interest in it. People started doing
voice with just plain 'best effort' service, and I guess it worked 'well
enough' that nobody was interested in IntServ/RSVP.
Noel