[Asterisk-Users] Help - is voip good for in-house calls?

Peter Svensson psvasterisk at psv.nu
Sat Aug 14 21:30:32 MST 2004


On Sat, 14 Aug 2004, Jay Milk wrote:

> QOS comes into play only when you have to route the voice-traffic over a
> WAN connection and it has to compete with data going over the same link.
> If you have a T1 coming into the office and place a VOIP call, then
> someone downloading a huge file needs to give up bandwidth to let the
> voice traffic through.

The problems are mostly when you are on the road. All you need is one 
device with a queue of packets and you get a lot of latency. For a lan (or 
a wan under your control) latency should be manageable.

Peter





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