On Thu, 07 Jun 2012 11:09:48 +0100, Adrian Kennard <[email protected]> wrote: > On 07/06/12 10:38, Justin Finkelstein wrote: >> nteresting; so it sounds, from what you say, that by default VoIP gets a >> "good deal" out of the available bandwidth? > On *our* network, yes. We use FireBricks which do that by default.
It's the priority of the packets which is important too. Most VoIP traffic is shorter UDP packets so it doesn't need large cache buffers - if indeed any at all. Rather than just bandwidth needs alone it makes internal route switching priority a good idea too. Everything else can generally wait before it's moved around. -- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is operated by Genome Research Limited, a charity registered in England with number 1021457 and a company registered in England with number 2742969, whose registered office is 215 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE.
