Bandwidth Quantity and Quality

Bandwidth Quantity and Quality
Over the next few chapters we analyze bandwidth quantity and quality. We show how
application bandwidth quality has to be preserved as we move complex content (rich
media) into and through a complex network. We identify how bandwidth quality can
be measured, managed, and used as the foundation for quality-based billing methodologies.
We show how the dynamic range available to us at the application layer will
change over the next 3 to 5 years and how this will influence radio bandwidth and network
topology.

We define bandwidth quality in terms of application bandwidth, processor bandwidth,
memory bandwidth, radio bandwidth, and network bandwidth, and then we
identify what we need to do to deliver consistently good end-to-end performance.