[55786] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: VoIP QOS best practices
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Sprunk)
Mon Feb 10 17:39:30 2003
From: "Stephen Sprunk" <stephen@sprunk.org>
To: "Ray Burkholder" <ray@oneunified.net>
Cc: "North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 16:32:03 -0600
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Thus spake "Ray Burkholder" <ray@oneunified.net>
> QoS is important on T1 circuits and makes voice higher priority.
QOS is a much broader subject than just giving voice priority treatment.
> Voice can even be done on sub T1 circuits with excellent results.
Indeed. I've unfortunately had many instances where a company runs 5+ VoIP
calls -- in addition to data traffic -- over a 64k circuit with the line
staying at 95-100% capacity 24x7. It's not easy, but it's doable.
S
