[Asterisk-Users] Is Gigabit Ethernet necessary?

[steve at daviesfam.org]

On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Adam Goryachev wrote:

> So, with 20 phones, each phone gets 5Mbps to the server, which,
> bandwidth wise is still plenty, but latency wise, might start to have an
> impact....

Come on...

the line will be idle 98% of the time.

At worst a packet would have to wait 19 packet times. Which is 300
microseconds for 200-byte packets at 100 megabit/sec.

Before you see even 1msec of latency you could be queued behind 60 other 
packets.

Steve