[55727] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: VoIP QOS best practices
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Woodcock)
Mon Feb 10 13:08:39 2003
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 10:04:36 -0800 (PST)
From: Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>
To: Charles Youse <cyouse@register.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <BCAAA5D64C837641A9EBB93E2A508948D516CA@ex2k01.corp.register.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> That doesn't seem to make a lot of sense - is it that QoS doesn't work as advertised?
That's generally true as well. But why would you need it? What's the
advantage to be gained in using QoS to throw away packets, when the
packets don't need to be thrown away?
> As someone who is looking to deploy VoIP in the near future this is of particular interest.
Go ahead and deploy it. It's easy and works well. It certainly doesn't
need anything like QoS to make it work.
-Bill
