[55787] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: VoIP QOS best practices
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Sprunk)
Mon Feb 10 17:42:35 2003
From: "Stephen Sprunk" <stephen@sprunk.org>
To: <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Cc: "North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 16:35:18 -0600
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Thus spake <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
> 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.
That's certainly true of ISPs, but most VoIP is over bandwidth-starved
private networks.
S
