[asterisk-biz] Checking Carrier Reliability?

[Jared Smith]

On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 10:22 -0700, Douglas Garstang wrote:
> What about dead air? How do you check for dead air?
> 
> What about quality? 

If we're talking SIP traffic, one suggestion would be to look at the
RTCP traffic coming back to you from the carrier, and see what type of
jitter/packet loss/out of order packets you're seeing.  Obviously some
(or maybe even most) of that is beyond their control if the packets are
going across the internet, but it can be a useful tool to use.

Obviously IAX doesn't use RTCP to report that information, but it still
comes across in the IAX packets nonetheless.

-- 
Jared Smith
Community Relations Manager
Digium, Inc.