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Re: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]
From: Chris Woodfield <rekoil () semihuman com>
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 14:08:48 -0500
One thing to note here is that while VoIP flows are low volume on a bits-per-second basis, they push substantially more packets per kilobit than other traffic types - as much as 50pps per 82Kbps flow. And I have seen cases of older line cards approaching their pps limits when handling large numbers of VoIP flows even though there's plenty of throughput headroom. That's not something LLQ or priority queueing are going to be able to help you mitigate at all.
-C On Dec 16, 2005, at 4:29 AM, Michael.Dillon () btradianz com wrote:
A single VoIP call is a rather slim volume of packets compared to many other uses of the Internet. If a network doesn't have systemic jitter caused by layer 2 congestion, then one would expect VoIP to work fine on a modern network. Indeed, that is what Bill Woodcock reported a year or so ago in regard to INOC-DBA. --Michael Dillon
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- Re: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet], (continued)
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- Re: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet] Mark Smith (Dec 16)
- Re: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet] Michael . Dillon (Dec 16)
- Re: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet] Chris Woodfield (Dec 18)
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- Re: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet] Jay Hennigan (Dec 18)
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- Re: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet] Mikael Abrahamsson (Dec 18)
- Re: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet] Joe Maimon (Dec 18)
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- RE: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet] Sean Donelan (Dec 16)
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