[38156] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: QOS or more bandwidth
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Maxwell)
Tue May 29 14:13:24 2001
Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 14:03:24 -0400 (EDT)
From: Greg Maxwell <gmaxwell@martin.fl.us>
To: Eric Whitehill <eric@botbay.net>
Cc: Bill Woodcock <woody@zocalo.net>, RJ Atkinson <rja@inet.org>,
<nanog@merit.edu>
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On Tue, 29 May 2001, Eric Whitehill wrote:
> I know of someone who is trying to do a VOIP system over a wireless
> network - they are having limited success, but when they did some packet
> switching magic, it seemed to help some, but last I checked they are still
> having issues with it dropping calls and the phone system constantly
> resetting. Is VOIP really ready for such practices as to allow business
> to totally rely on VOIP in this matter?
I think you're asking the wrong question:
Is low-cost commidity wireless networking ready to support delay and
jitter critical applications?
I think the answer is no.
