[138071] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SLA for voice and video over IP/MPLS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Diogo Montagner)
Sun Feb 27 21:33:52 2011
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTin00BthgfEp3KSyKhqh-yzP7nBxBMXW37PE3KiY@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 10:33:48 +0800
From: Diogo Montagner <diogo.montagner@gmail.com>
To: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Hi Chris,
I never got this answer.
Chris, Tim, Anton and Martin,
thank you for all inputs. Really appreciate them.
Thanks
./diogo -montagner
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 9:42 AM, Christopher Morrow
<morrowc.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Anton Kapela <tkapela@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 6:10 PM, Diogo Montagner
>> <diogo.montagner@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I am looking for industry standard parameters to base the SLA of one
>>> network regarding to voice, video and data application.
>>
>> One won't find many, but a common rule of thumb is most apps will be
>> 'fine' with networks that provide 10E-6 BER or lower loss rates.
>
> out of pure curiosity, have you ever gotten a reasonable answer when
> asking a carrier about this? I can imagine a sale-rep's brain
> essentially exploding upon asking it. Additionally 'the network' is
> not 'the path my packets take' ... so what number are you really
> getting here?
>
> -Chris
>
