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QoS isn't necessarily about throwing packets away. It is more like making voice packets 'go to the head of the line'. Of course, if you have saturation, some packets will get dropped, but at least the voice packets won't get dropped since they were prioritized higher. Ray Burkholder > -----Original Message----- > From: Bill Woodcock [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: February 10, 2003 14:05 > To: Charles Youse > Cc: [email protected] > 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 > > >
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