Network traffic really shouldn't be much of a concern if you have decent n-way switches installed -- pretty much all "mainstream" switches these days use n-way (Address Table, etc... Lots of names for the same technology). Those switches basically have enough smarts to know where the packets are going, and to isolate a datastream to the destination port. So if you have voice-traffic between ports 1 and 2, ports 3-16 won't even see it, so it doesn't bog down a whole network segment. In my setup (2xLinksys 4116 switches), I can stream video at full speed from my server to a ReplayTV unit without hearing so much as a click on an internal phone conversation -- the LEDs on the ports show traffic limited to the appropriate ports.
QOS comes into play only when you have to route the voice-traffic over a WAN connection and it has to compete with data going over the same link. If you have a T1 coming into the office and place a VOIP call, then someone downloading a huge file needs to give up bandwidth to let the voice traffic through. > -----Original Message----- > From: Wiley E. Siler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, August 14, 2004 4:43 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Help - is voip good for in-house calls? > > Also, my HP switch has COS (class of service which is like > QOS) so I can prioritize the packets coming from my phones > over the standard network traffic. Even without this > switching feature turned on, performance was great. The > > -----Original Message----- > From: Francis Augusto Medeiros [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, August 14, 2004 1:08 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Help - is voip good for in-house calls? > > My concerns are most latencies. Our network will be a switch > with lots of ports, all 100mb/s, with VERY low traffic. > _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
