Darren Sessions wrote: > I've used C-Band, Ku-Band, and DVB satellite internationally with VoIP > for years at a previous employer and rarely had any problems was the > sat link was up and running. > > If you do plan on having 'remote offices', you'll want to make sure they > all come back to a central earth station (hub and spoke topology) or > you'll have virtually insurmountable latency issues (as Femi mentioned). > Whatever you do though, don't stick the remote offices with their own > internet bandwidth using VPN to connect to the home office for voice, > data services as VPNs are extremely problematic over satellite.
Yes, indeed. Encapsulation protocols such as IPSec/GRE won't work at all over high RTT latency (>= 400 ms). -- Alex Balashov Evariste Systems Web : http://www.evaristesys.com/ Tel : (+1) (678) 954-0670 Direct : (+1) (678) 954-0671 Mobile : (+1) (706) 338-8599 _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- AstriCon 2008 - September 22 - 25 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
