Speaking of codecs, what are the primary variables one uses when choosing a codec? I imagine this is some function of how much bandwidth you want to use versus how much CPU to encode the voice stream. C. -----Original Message----- From: Alec H. Peterson [mailto:ahp@hilander.com] Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 1:40 PM To: Bill Woodcock; Charles Youse Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: VoIP QOS best practices --On Monday, February 10, 2003 10:19 -0800 Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net> wrote:

It works fine on 64k connections, okay on many 9600bps connections. T1 is way more than is necessary.

I'd say that largely depends on which codec you are using and how many simultaneous calls you will have going. Alec -- Alec H. Peterson -- ahp@hilander.com Chief Technology Officer Catbird Networks, http://www.catbird.com