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face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
asterisk-biz-bounces@lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-biz-bounces@lists.digium.com] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Script
Head<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, January 31, 2006 6:25 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re:
[asterisk-biz] Is ISP Blocking VoIP<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV>Can anyone name a couple of reasonably priced or freeware tools that
could help me measure the performance between two VoIP endpoints?<BR><BR>As
far as ISPs introducing jitter to VoIP calls, can't this be solved by passing
VoIP over a VPN? <BR><SPAN
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<DIV dir=ltr><SPAN class=019534002-01022006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Technically, yes, but in the many cases, (most, IMHO), such an
approach is completely impractical. </FONT> <FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>The processing overhead added by the VPN is not inconsequential. Move
importantly, deploying VPN's for every endpoint connecting to an ITSP or
IPPBX could be ruinous. </FONT></SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML>