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Get Out Your Crayons. We Need to Color Us Some Bits

Those eight bits in the IP header aren’t doing much of anything these days, perhaps it’s time to put them to work Back in the early days of bandwidth management, when quality of service and ...
Published Jul 22, 2010
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application delivery
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cloud
design
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infrastructure
infrastructure 2.0
management
monitoring
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@Jason

 

 

Interesting. Limitations on VLANs, queuing, etc... may be problematic in general for network-layer management internal and external to cloud, hence the move toward the upper layers of the stack where such limitations don't necessarily exist.

 

 

So maybe we're going to have to stick with an OOB solution to manage performance of management-layer traffic?

 

 

Lori

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