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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: RTT from NY to New Delhi?
Thus spake "Tim Franklin" <[email protected]> Going east from NY, you'd add 70 or 80ms to that - and a quick look suggests routes going west instead. (Test from home to .IN NS goes London -> NY -> West Coast -> Singtel -> India, for ~370ms) You'd be surprised what people are willing to accept when the alternatives are worse. I had a customer install VSAT in India just so they could use IP phones -- and their only gateway was in the US. Apparently the audio quality and reliability of the PTT was so bad that they were willing to _stand in line_ to use the two IP phones there to make calls, even with the walkie-talkie effect in full force. It was cheaper too, despite the outrageous cost of VSAT bandwidth. US telcos and engineers tend to overestimate the importance of audio quality and reliability on VoIP; we have an entire generation of people now who have been trained by wireless carriers to _expect_ to pay through the nose for bad quality. VoIP across the Internet, even with no QoS at all, looks great in comparison because it's cheaper and sounds better. S Stephen Sprunk "Those people who think they know everything CCIE #3723 are a great annoyance to those of us who do." K5SSS --Isaac Asimov
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