If you are connecting multiple sites then your best bet is to use a hosted provider. In your case, you might look at Speakeasy (since you are going to go with their DSL service anyway) - though we wouldn't run away if you called us :-)
Their are some problems with running VoIP across a VPN channel. The most common is that latency problems rise logarithmically - and latency (or rather the lack of it) is the life blood of VoIP. Also, you'll need to make sure your tunnel handles traffic across all UDP ports and a few TCP ports. You'll get better quality if you just send the VoIP directly across your internet connection and out to your Soft-Switch (or to an secure Asterisk box that then relays the connection into your Soft-Switch). Good Luck - Jon Carnes On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 08:54, Chad Thomsen wrote: > Was wondering if anybody is doing this successfully at there BUSINESS (not > looking at home usage). I have a 7 site network and was thinking about > converting from ITC Deltacom frame to speakeasy.net DSL (since they offer a > CIR like service) but was wondering if very many folks have been successful > with it. BIG question is performance. What happens if the traffic on the > internet backbone is really heavy? Would it not effect the performance of > the VoIP? Speakeasy.net can gaurantee minimum bandwidth to and form the > "intenet cloud" from each location but once traffic is traveling accross > that cloud you are at the mercy of the internet backbone. > > Any feedback would be appreciated. > > Thanks! > > Chad -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
