The question of our study is how to provision a diffserv (differentiated service) intra-net serving three classes of traffic,
i.e., voice, real-time data (e.g. stock quotes), and best-effort data. Each class of traffic requires a different level of
QoS (Quality of Service) guarantee. For VoIP the primary QoS requirements are delay and loss; for realtime data response-time.
Given a network configuration and anticipated workload of a business intra-net, we use ns-2 simulations to determine the minimum
capacity requirements that dominate total cost of the intranet. To ensure that it is worthwhile converging different traffic
classes or deploying diffserv, we cautiously examine capacity requirements in three sets of experiments: three traffic classes
in i) three dedicated networks, ii) one network without diffserv support , and iii) one network with diffserv support. We
find that for the business intra-net of our study, integration without diffserv may need considerable over-provisioning depending
on the fraction of real-time data in the network. In addition, we observe significant capacity savings in the diffserv case;
thus conclude that deploying diffserv is advantageous. The relations we find give rise to, as far as we know, the first rule
of thumb on provisioning a diffserv network for increasing real-time data.