Re: VoIP QOS best practices

["Stephen Sprunk" <stephen () sprunk org>]

Thus spake <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu>
> On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 13:02:39 EST, Charles Youse <cyouse () register com>
said:
> > That doesn't seem to make a lot of sense - is it that QoS doesn't work
as advertised?
> Qos is designed for dealing with "who gets preference when there's
> a bandwidth shortage".  Most places are having a bandwidth glut at
> the moment, so the VoIP traffic gets through just fine and QoS isn't
> able to provide much measurable improvement.

That's certainly true of ISPs, but most VoIP is over bandwidth-starved
private networks.

S