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Re: Overflow circuit

  • From: W.D.McKinney
  • Date: Sat Mar 27 03:31:38 2004
  • Sensitivity: Normal

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mailing List Subscriptions [mailto:[email protected]]
>Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2004 08:13 AM
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: RE: Overflow circuit
>
>
>I have been doing VoIP over sat to northern Canada and Latin America for
>more than five years now, using Cisco routers with analog and digital voice
>ports, and also IP phones. Other than the inevitable lag due to 500+ ms RTT,
>the voice quality with the G.729 codec has been good. I have lost count of
>the number of mining operations in northern Canada that rely in VoIP over
>sat for communication with the civilized world. Some of the bigger
>operations have in excess of 500+ Cisco IP phones.
>

Alaska has a lot connections doing VoIP over Sat also. Most of the state is served by Sat connections, being the largest state in the U.S.

Dee


>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On 
>> Behalf Of Alexei Roudnev
>> Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 11:39 PM
>> To: Patrick Murphy; Mailing List Subscriptions; [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: Overflow circuit
>> 
>> 
>> VoIP over satellite? I am very sceptical about it. Better, 
>> forget such idea.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> >
>> > You may want to look at using H.323 gatekeepers with CAC (Call 
>> > Admission Control).
>> >
>> > Here is a link to a Whitepaper on this Subject.
>> >
>> >
>> http://www.cisco.com/en/US/partner/tech/tk652/tk701/technologi
>> es_white_paper09186a00800da467.shtml
>> >
>> > Patrick
>> >
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: "Mailing List Subscriptions" <[email protected]>
>> > To: <[email protected]>
>> > Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 7:54 PM
>> > Subject: Overflow circuit
>> >
>> >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > I am looking for advice on technique or products that can 
>> solve the 
>> > > following challenge ...
>> > >
>> > > Two private line T1's between A and B - one terrestial T1 
>> with >200 
>> > > ms
>> > RTT,
>> > > the other T1 is over satellite with ~500 ms RTT. The circuits are 
>> > > being
>> > used
>> > > for mixed VoIP (70%) and data (30%) applications. To 
>> achieve optimal
>> voice
>> > > quality, we want to route all VoIP calls over the terrestial T1 
>> > > until it
>> > is
>> > > "full", then divert all subsequent VoIP calls over the 
>> satellite T1 
>> > > (** while existing VoIP calls continue to be routed over 
>> the terrestial T1).
>> > >
>> > > So it looks like I need per-flow (based on protocol, src 
>> IP, dst IP, 
>> > > src port, dst port) routing. It looks like MPLS Traffic 
>> Engineering 
>> > > can do
>> the
>> > > job. Is there anything else that can it with less complexity?
>> > >
>> > > Ideas or recommendations?
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Regards,
>> > > Joe
>> > >
>> > >
>> >
>> 
>> 
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