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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: VoIP QOS best practices
> However, its important that the backbone is operating "properly" ie not
> saturated which I think should be the case for all network operators, theres a
> requirement tho if the customer has a relatively low bandwidth tail to the
> network which is shared for different applications, its probably a good idea to
> make sure the voip packets have higher priority than non-realtime data... (this
> last comment is a suggestion, I've not actually tested this in a real
> environment, low b/w lab tests tend to exclude other traffic flows)
We've got plenty of the INOC-DBA phones on the ends of congested satellite
tail-circuits, and don't really have significant trouble. As has been
pointed out, the VoIP traffic may be stomping all over TCP traffic on the
same links, but it _sounds_ good. :-)
-Bill
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