QOS or more bandwidth

Tue May 29 18:01:51 UTC 2001

We have done some testing of VoIP across a 802.11b wireless connection, 
and it appears to be pretty decent, but it really depends on the quantity 
of the wireless connection.  The biggest problem we have run across is 
jitter...

Spencer
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Eric Whitehill <eric at botbay.net>
Sent by: owner-nanog at merit.edu
05/29/2001 01:42 PM

        To:     Bill Woodcock <woody at zocalo.net>
        cc:     RJ Atkinson <rja at inet.org>, <nanog at merit.edu>
        Subject:        RE: QOS or more bandwidth

I know of someone who is trying to do a VOIP system over a wireless
network - they are having limited success, but when they did some packet
switching magic, it seemed to help some, but last I checked they are still
having issues with it dropping calls and the phone system constantly
resetting.  Is VOIP really ready for such practices as to allow business
to totally rely on VOIP in this matter?

ok ok a little off topic ;-)

-Eric

 On Tue, 29 May 2001, Bill Woodcock wrote:

> Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 10:34:09 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Bill Woodcock <woody at zocalo.net>
> To: RJ Atkinson <rja at inet.org>
> Cc: nanog at merit.edu
> Subject: RE: QOS or more bandwidth
>
>
>     >         Whenever I did the cost of deploying and managing fancy 
QoS
>     > and compared it with the cost of getting and managing more 
capacity,
>     > it was always MUCH MUCH cheaper to get and manage more capacity
>     > than to mess with more QoS.
>
> We did one VoIP network deployment, and I tried each of the different 
QoS
> services in IOS at that time (about 18 months ago) both in the lab and 
in
> the field, and more bandwidth was the answer then.
>
>                                 -Bill
>
>
>