[Asterisk-Users] QoS General Question

[Eric Wieling aka ManxPower]

Geoff Manning wrote:
> Michael Graves wrote:
> 
>>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
> 
> 
> Thanks for the info. We are experiencing issues with quality and I'm trying
> to smooth them out. Is there a way to determine the impact that is being
> caused by the local traffic? Monitoring tools that will show this in report
> form or realtime? Every day or so we get reports that there is a lot of
> problems for short bursts of time. I would like to be able to show that the
> local traffic is affecting this.

In my experience, for local LAN audio issues, duplex problems are the 
problem, not LAN traffic.

Of course, if you are running Asterisk on your file server or something 
silly like that, all bets are off.