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plentiful commodity: bandwidth.* Why be so parsimonious in the one resource (at the expense
of added equipment costs/expenditures) whose price keeps dropping so rapidly? Furthermore, one
notes that going back at least a decade providers of packet-based networks (e.g., frame relay, ATM,
etc.) have, almost invariably, overengineered (read: “placed more bandwidth in play than neces-
sary”) their networks to hide quality of service (QoS) issues from the user, and keep customers as
content as they would have been with a private line service.†
10.2.1.4 Transition Considerations
As discussed in the previous section, ...