[172529] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [VoiceOps] High Quality, Reliable Voice via the Internet / SIPNOC
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Sat Jun 21 11:51:11 2014
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Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2014 11:50:53 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "PE" <peeip989@gmail.com>
> But isn't congestion caused by bytes and not number of packets? So, by
> that argument, larger packets will fill the queue faster than smaller
> and thus have a higher propensity to drop? And when it does, it is a
> bigger chunk of audio so it could actually reduce quality rather than
> improve it.
Not necessarily. There's *lots* of gear out there that will move 100mb/s
all day long with no problems, but if you smack it with too many 50-byte
packets per second, it will have a nervous breakdown. Probably less so
than formerly, but I suspect there's still a lot that isn't perfect.
Cheers,
-- jra
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