RFC 8578 · INFORMATIONAL · 2019

Deterministic Networking Use Cases

Overview

RFC 8578, “Deterministic Networking Use Cases”, is an Informational document published in May 2019 by E. Grossman. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.

Abstract

This document presents use cases for diverse industries that have in common a need for "deterministic flows". "Deterministic" in this context means that such flows provide guaranteed bandwidth, bounded latency, and other properties germane to the transport of time-sensitive data. These use cases differ notably in their network topologies and specific desired behavior, providing as a group broad industry context for Deterministic Networking (DetNet). For each use case, this document will identify the use case, identify representative solutions used today, and describe potential improvements that DetNet can enable.

Abstract as published in the RFC, via rfc-editor.org.

What “Informational” means

Published for the general information of the community. It does not define an IETF standard and carries no standards-track status.

Read this RFC

The canonical text of RFC 8578 is hosted at rfc-editor.org. Available in TXT,HTML.

Other RFCs from 2019

Who Is Online

In total there are 206 users online: 0 registered, 203 guests and 3 bots.

Most users ever online was 1,226 on 13 Jun 2026, 3:56 am.

Bots: Other Bot Other Crawler SemrushBot

Users active in the past 15 minutes. Total registered members: 354