[55731] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: VoIP QOS best practices
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Woodcock)
Mon Feb 10 13:21:15 2003
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 10:06:12 -0800 (PST)
From: Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>
To: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0302101802360.9430-100000@MrServer>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> of course if your using satellite your already accepting the delay from
> propogation and delay from buffering from this kind of jitter which is fine, but
> may not be acceptable for say a commercial voip service in a local area which
> ought to be comparable to pstn quality..
VoIP is nearly always spectacularly better than PSTN quality. Anywhere
where VoIP runs over satellite, PSTN is also running over satellite, but
the PSTN doesn't have the advantage of modern CODECs or digital
end-to-end.
-Bill
