[55807] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: VoIP QOS best practices
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Gauthier)
Tue Feb 11 11:34:29 2003
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 12:31:15 -0500
From: Eric Gauthier <eric@roxanne.org>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <016701c2d154$beac34d0$93b58742@ssprunk>; from stephen@sprunk.org on Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 04:32:03PM -0600
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> 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.
We're not running VoIP, but we did run an OC3 at 100% 24x7 for 6 months and,
with custom queuing and some clever traffic shaping, no one noticed.
Eric :)
