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On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote: > Ah, and therein lies the rub. > > Any sort of QoS frob that is implemented for VoIP > (or any other traffic for that matter) _must_ be > truly honored end-to-end, and at every intermediate > hop in between, for it to be "guaranteed" -- otherwise > when traffic that you may designate as "higher quality" > is handed off to another administrative domain that > does not honor your traffic classifications, all bets > are off. > > If you do not "own" the end-to-end network > infrastructure, there is no way to guarantee any > preferential handling of any particular subset of > traffic. So, set your Rate-Limiting of SIP traffic to 1 packet per second for the network that YOU control and then offer your VoIP subscribers a different QOS profile at a higher cost. Bingo, problem solved. The economy will work itself out. -- Vice President of N2Net, a New Age Consulting Service, Inc. Company http://www.n2net.net Where everything clicks into place! KP-216-121-ST
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