[Asterisk-Users] QoS General Question

[Michael Graves]

On Tue, 9 Aug 2005 12:07:07 -0400, Geoff Manning wrote:

>How much of an impact can/does local network traffic have on call quality?
>Would opening large files on local servers affect call quality? We are
>running QoS on the router but that will only prioritize traffic in/out of
>the network. 

Sure it can. If you have a network segment that's fully saturated and
you're also pushing VOIP data over that segment you'll have problems.
In practice most networks are not that busy, but it can happen. If your
phones, switch and NICs are VLAN capable you can setup a dedicated VLAN
for the voice traffic and ensure that it gets priority.

Michael

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