Can anyone tell me if the current cable service offerings incorporate any
data rate contract (i.e. SLA)? In the "old" days a few years
back, there used to be a draw back in using cable in terms of
bandwidth sharing; your rate is NOT guaranteed. But I thought
DOCSIS 1.1 introduced QoS that allows ISP to have service contract
that changes this.

If not now, anyone knows if this'd be coming anytime soon?

Thanks,
Raymond

On 9 Aug 2004 09:04:28 -0700, Raymond Yeung wrote:
Hey it may allow them, but since there is no requirement, why
create a SLA to allow the customer to hit you over the head with it.

Your cable SLA is the Terms Of Service (TOS).

Read it, probably even will indicate you cannot sue the cable
provider.

Lawyers need to wise up, their jobs are not being outsourced, there being
eliminated. They need to pass a law where forced arbitration is illegal.

Hi, actually I'm not thinking about it in legal terms. I'm trying to
contrast the cable services with DSL services. You may want to offer
a contract if you can charge various rates to your customers. If you
want higher rates, you pay more. The issue, however, is how you can
guarantee your customers that their data rates would have any guarantee.
That's when DOCSIS 1.0 and 1.1 come into the picture.


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ryeung@earthlink.net (Raymond Yeung) wrote in
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Raymond,

It's definitely possible to do SLAs with DOCSIS v1.1. There are service
flows which break down to packet classifiers, etc. You can basically use
a scheduler in the CMTS to allocate certain timeslots to prioritize
certain services such as video, http, smtp or basically anything that you
can break down to a port/application mapping. As for anyone doing it in
the industry right now, I can't quite tell you. Most plants are still
1.0 only so 1.1/2.0 SLA has it's limitations until the plants are filled
with 1.1 provisioned devices.

-J