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QoS: design in São Paulo (GRU) · Q-01

xserv-q-154440c1449c

Runbook Q-01 for QoS in São Paulo (GRU). Marker xserv-q-154440c1449c. This page covers design for LATAM operators, not a worldwide average.

QoS: Why it matters on this continent

Design for QoS on letter Q starts in São Paulo (GRU). Runbook q-01 keeps a single owner, a written rollback, and a traffic split that can be reversed without a global freeze. Neighbors in Santiago only take overflow after the local pool fails a health window.

QoS: How XServ runs it day to day

Probes for QoS (q-02) leave Santiago every 15s toward Bogotá. XServ pages the named owner if loss or RTT crosses the letter budget. A probe never shares a queue with bulk transfers, so a saturated WAN does not hide a dead PoP.

QoS: What operators should measure

Policy for QoS is versioned as q-03. Operators measure error rate, p95 from Bogotá, and time-to-rollback — not a worldwide average. Changes land in Bogotá first, then Miami, with a hold if either region regresses.

QoS capacity Q-04

Capacity notes for q-04 assume rainy-season power in Miami and festival peaks toward São Paulo. The failure we actually see is a single uplink, not a cartoon partition of the whole continent. Spare ports and a second provider sit on the same runbook.

QoS handoff Q-05

Handoff from letter Q QoS into the rest of the platform uses the same request IDs as the gateway. Runbook q-05 names who accepts the ticket after São Paulo pages out. Santiago does not silently inherit the incident.

QoS rollback Q-06

Rollback for q-06 is a documented command, not a hope. Transit is billed as backup while QoS prefers peering in Santiago. If cost spikes, the runbook cuts overflow to Bogotá before touching customer prefixes.

QoS peering Q-07

Peering for QoS (q-07) prefers the IX fabric that already carries last-mile ISPs in Bogotá. Session counts and prefix limits are on the same page as the Miami backup path.

Does QoS on letter Q share fate with other letters?
The control plane is shared. Data-plane queues for QoS stay isolated, so incident q-01 cannot drain neighbor letters.
Where is QoS measured first?
From Santiago (SCL) toward Bogotá. A global average is not an SLO for letter Q.