-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lamar Owen Subject: Re: [c-nsp] VoIP without QoS
On Tuesday 22 May 2007, Nassess, George wrote: > I am in the process of extending our distributed VoIP call center to a > partner company, and their networking staff are extremely adamant that > they do not wish to implement QoS on their remote LAN, the DS3 link that > the voice traffic will traverse, or the core LAN in our shared > datacenter. To oversimplify, if there's no congestion, VOIP w/o QoS will function fine in most cases.. It's why companies like Vonage have loads of customers over the internet with zero QoS. I've deployed Cisco-based VOIP on circuits w/o QoS until IOS upgrades/hardware upgrades/etc could be completed. It mostly worked, most of the time... However, at the first hints of congestion, UDP packets, which is where most voice payloads reside, and which don't have the benefits of TCP retrans/etc handling, will start dropping on the floor. Voice calls flange, chunk, chop, and drop. As an aside, I'd be concerned about a networking group unwilling to implement any form of QoS on a WAN circuit, especially to support a call center... but that's just me...
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