[55742] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: VoIP QOS best practices
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ray Burkholder)
Mon Feb 10 13:54:19 2003
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 13:30:43 -0500
From: "Ray Burkholder" <ray@oneunified.net>
To: "Bill Woodcock" <woody@pch.net>,
"Charles Youse" <cyouse@register.com>
Cc: <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
QoS isn't necessarily about throwing packets away. It is more like
making voice packets 'go to the head of the line'. Of course, if you
have saturation, some packets will get dropped, but at least the voice
packets won't get dropped since they were prioritized higher.
Ray Burkholder
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Woodcock [mailto:woody@pch.net]=20
> Sent: February 10, 2003 14:05
> To: Charles Youse
> Cc: nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: RE: VoIP QOS best practices
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> > That doesn't seem to make a lot of sense - is it that=20
> QoS doesn't work as advertised?
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> 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?
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> > As someone who is looking to deploy VoIP in the near=20
> future this is of particular interest.
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> Go ahead and deploy it. It's easy and works well. It=20
> certainly doesn't
> need anything like QoS to make it work.
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> -Bill
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