VoIP QOS best practices

Stephen Sprunk stephen at sprunk.org
Mon Feb 10 22:28:49 UTC 2003


Thus spake "Bill Woodcock" <woody at pch.net>
> QoS is completely unnecessary for VoIP.  Doesn't appear to make a
> bit of difference.  Any relationship between the two is just FUD from
> people who've never used VoIP.

To paraphrase Randy, I encourage all of my competitors to think like this.

Iff you operate a network with enough excess capacity to keep jitter and
packet loss within acceptable limits, you do not need QOS.  Most real
networks are far from that ideal, however.

S




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