[55738] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: VoIP QOS best practices
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles Youse)
Mon Feb 10 13:42:19 2003
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 13:23:44 -0500
From: "Charles Youse" <cyouse@register.com>
To: <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Cc: "Bill Woodcock" <woody@pch.net>, <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Indeed, but in this case I'm dealing with a private network that doesn't
have so much surplus as to guarantee no contention.
C.
-----Original Message-----
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu [mailto:Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu]
Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 1:23 PM
To: Charles Youse
Cc: Bill Woodcock; nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: VoIP QOS best practices=20
On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 13:02:39 EST, Charles Youse <cyouse@register.com>
said:
> That doesn't seem to make a lot of sense - is it that QoS doesn't work
as advertised?
Qos is designed for dealing with "who gets preference when there's a
bandwidth
shortage". Most places are having a bandwidth glut at the moment, so
the VoIP
traffic gets through just fine and QoS isn't able to provide much
measurable
improvement.
