VoIP QOS best practices

Mon Feb 10 18:09:23 UTC 2003

My main concern is that some of the sites that will be tied with VoIP have only T-1 data connectivity, and I don't want a surge in traffic to degrade the voice quality, or cause disconnections or what-have-you.  People are more accustomed to data networks going down; voice networks going down will make people shout.

C.

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Woodcock [mailto:woody at pch.net]
Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 1:05 PM
To: Charles Youse
Cc: nanog at nanog.org
Subject: RE: VoIP QOS best practices

    > That doesn't seem to make a lot of sense - is it that QoS doesn't work as advertised?

That's generally true as well.  But why would you need it?  What's the
advantage to be gained in using QoS to throw away packets, when the
packets don't need to be thrown away?

    > As someone who is looking to deploy VoIP in the near future this is of particular interest.

Go ahead and deploy it.  It's easy and works well.  It certainly doesn't
need anything like QoS to make it work.

                                -Bill