[109213] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: hosted PBX/VOIP thru VPN?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Ward)
Tue Nov 11 21:26:19 2008
From: Nathan Ward <nanog@daork.net>
To: nanog list <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <041301c9446c$c6a33030$53e99090$@org>
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:25:57 +1300
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On 12/11/2008, at 3:17 PM, Lorell Hathcock wrote:
> All:
>
> My customer wants to try to improve performance to his ATAs by
> creating a
> VPN from his network to the VOIP provider's network through the
> internet.
> Thoughts? Should I try to dissuade him from this if performance is
> his main
> motivator?
Yep.
I've done this sort of thing to get around NAT problems, that's about
it.
Perhaps their theory is that a VPN gives them a "private" network, and
they've heard that "private" networks do VoIP better.
Obviously, a VPN doesn't give you control of the packets on the wire
like a private network does, so that theory doesn't work.
--
Nathan Ward
