On 9/12/05, Simon P. Ditner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.computerworld.com/printthis/2005/0,4814,104529,00.html > > // snip // > Capouch says Asterisk and VoIP combined will do to the telecom market > what Linux, Apache, MySQL and other open-source technologies have done > to the data center: "radically change the landscape." Capouch shrugs > off the argument that perceived problems with VoIP call quality may > hinder adoption. "Cell phones have lowered people's quality > expectations," he notes. > // snip // > > I personally don't find dropped calls and low audio quality to be > acceptable with the services I use. Letting this sort of standard for > quality perpetuate is like being lax on building codes, we're setting > ourselves up for a disaster.
I simply just don't find dropped calls and audio quality to be a problem for me at all. I've easily had over 100 conference calls, ranging from 10 minutes to well over a few hours without a single problem. Call quality is a non-issue as I'm using G.711u, but even when using the GSM codec things still sound great. I don't think people should expect that if they use VoIP they need to live with poor sound quality and dropped calls - as long as the network you are using is of a reasonable quality, then there simply isn't a problem. And with the amount of downloading and data bit rates that any reasonable ISP provides (at least in North America) then the voice traffic is really quite insignificant. -- Leif Madsen. http://www.leifmadsen.com Astricon 2005 - Anaheim, CA October 12-14 http://www.astricon.net
