Indeed, but in this case I'm dealing with a private network that doesn't have so much surplus as to guarantee no contention. C. -----Original Message----- From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu [mailto:Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu] Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 1:23 PM To: Charles Youse Cc: Bill Woodcock; nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: VoIP QOS best practices On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 13:02:39 EST, Charles Youse <cyouse@register.com> said:
That doesn't seem to make a lot of sense - is it that QoS doesn't work as advertised?
Qos is designed for dealing with "who gets preference when there's a bandwidth shortage". Most places are having a bandwidth glut at the moment, so the VoIP traffic gets through just fine and QoS isn't able to provide much measurable improvement.