[65185] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Voice Compression
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Woodcock)
Thu Nov 13 21:13:56 2003
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 18:10:26 -0800 (PST)
From: Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>
To: "Anton L. Kapela" <kapela@mwdt.com>
Cc: Robert White <texan37@swbell.net>, <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <2020.12.248.69.176.1068763022.squirrel@www.mwdt.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Anton L. Kapela wrote:
> I would like to also suggest seeking devices that use "iLBC" as a
> codec. I've been using this codec for interconnecting voip systems and
> have been very pleased with the results.
> Check it out: http://www.ilbcfreeware.org
Yep, although I haven't used it yet myself, I've been hearing it very
widely praised, particularly for traffic flowing across high-congestion
Internet links. Apparently it can sustain 20% packet loss without
significant reduction in voice quality. However, this was supposed to be
over "T1s" which I assumed to mean point-to-point serial.
-Bill
