Management of quality of service enabled VPNs

  • Authors:
  • T. Braun;M. Guenter;I. Khalil

  • Affiliations:
  • Bern Univ.;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Communications Magazine
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

New emerging IP services based on differentiated services and the IP security architecture offer the level of communication support that corporate Internet applications need nowadays. However, these services add an additional degree of complexity to IP networks which will require sophisticated management support. The management of enhanced IP services for their customers is thus an emerging important task for Internet service providers. This article describes a potential management architecture service providers will need for that task, considering problems such as multiprovider services and service automation. We focus on a quality-enhanced virtual private network service which is particularly useful for corporate internetworking