SLA for voice and video over IP/MPLS

William Herrin bill at herrin.us
Mon Feb 28 23:23:56 UTC 2011


On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Anton Kapela <tkapela at gmail.com> wrote:
> One won't find many, but a common rule of thumb is most apps will be
> 'fine' with networks that provide 10E-6 BER or lower loss rates.

Anton,

Who uses BER to measure packet switched networks? Is it even possible
to measure a bit error rate on a multihop network where a corrupted
packet will either be discarded in its entirety or transparently
resent?

Regards,
Bill Herrin


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