[78395] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: More on Vonage service disruptions...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Boehnlein)
Wed Mar 2 22:16:25 2005
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 22:15:48 -0500 (EST)
From: Greg Boehnlein <damin@nacs.net>
To: "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg@NETZERO.NET>
Cc: rosowskij@ie.ymp.gov, <kwallace@pcconnection.com>,
<nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050302.104921.21173.1556@webmail27.lax.untd.com>
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On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote:
> Ah, and therein lies the rub.
>
> Any sort of QoS frob that is implemented for VoIP
> (or any other traffic for that matter) _must_ be
> truly honored end-to-end, and at every intermediate
> hop in between, for it to be "guaranteed" -- otherwise
> when traffic that you may designate as "higher quality"
> is handed off to another administrative domain that
> does not honor your traffic classifications, all bets
> are off.
>
> If you do not "own" the end-to-end network
> infrastructure, there is no way to guarantee any
> preferential handling of any particular subset of
> traffic.
So, set your Rate-Limiting of SIP traffic to 1 packet per second for the
network that YOU control and then offer your VoIP subscribers a different
QOS profile at a higher cost.
Bingo, problem solved. The economy will work itself out.
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