VoIP QOS best practices

Mon Feb 10 18:21:53 UTC 2003

But I could conceivably have 10+ voice channels over a T-1, I still don't quite understand how, without prioritizing voice traffic, the quality won't degrade...

C.

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Woodcock [mailto:woody at pch.net]
Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 1:20 PM
To: Charles Youse
Cc: nanog at nanog.org
Subject: RE: VoIP QOS best practices

    > 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.

It works fine on 64k connections, okay on many 9600bps connections.  T1 is
way more than is necessary.

                                -Bill