[138177] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SLA for voice and video over IP/MPLS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Mon Feb 28 18:26:57 2011
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikkRMRkwbBawG27bNa=9N9Lg6q4E0scM7t764du@mail.gmail.com>
From: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 18:23:56 -0500
To: Anton Kapela <tkapela@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Anton Kapela <tkapela@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
Anton,
Who uses BER to measure packet switched networks? Is it even possible
to measure a bit error rate on a multihop network where a corrupted
packet will either be discarded in its entirety or transparently
resent?
Regards,
Bill Herrin
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