[55785] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: VoIP QOS best practices
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Sprunk)
Mon Feb 10 17:36:57 2003
From: "Stephen Sprunk" <stephen@sprunk.org>
To: "Bill Woodcock" <woody@pch.net>
Cc: "North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 16:28:49 -0600
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Thus spake "Bill Woodcock" <woody@pch.net>
> 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.
To paraphrase Randy, I encourage all of my competitors to think like this.
Iff you operate a network with enough excess capacity to keep jitter and
packet loss within acceptable limits, you do not need QOS. Most real
networks are far from that ideal, however.
S
