[55723] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: VoIP QOS best practices
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason Lixfeld)
Mon Feb 10 12:56:20 2003
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 12:55:27 -0500
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
To: Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>
From: Jason Lixfeld <jlixfeld@andromedas.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0302100945480.12675-100000@paixhost.pch.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Monday, February 10, 2003, at 12:47 PM, Bill Woodcock wrote:
>
>>> Looking for some links to case studies or other documentation which
>>> describe implementing VoIP between sites which do not have point to
>>> point links. From what I understand, you can't enforce end-to-end
>>> QoS
>>> on a public network, nor over tunnels. I'm wondering if my basic
>>> understanding of this is flawed and in the case that it's not, how is
>>> this dealt with if the ISPs of said sites don't have any QoS
>>> policies?
>
> QoS is completely unnecessary for VoIP. Doesn't appear to make a bit
> of
> difference. Any relationship between the two is just FUD from people
> who've never used VoIP.
Indeed, people like me :)
