[c-nsp] VoIP without QoS

[Lamar Owen]

On Tuesday 22 May 2007, Nassess, George wrote:
> I am in the process of extending our distributed VoIP call center to a
> partner company, and their networking staff are extremely adamant that
> they do not wish to implement QoS on their remote LAN, the DS3 link that
> the voice traffic will traverse, or the core LAN in our shared
> datacenter. 

I too would like to see a good discussion of this, as I'm getting prepared to 
implement VoIP here, on an 8540MSR core with Catalyst 5500-series 
distribution-access switches (using RSM's and RSFC's in each 5500-series to 
provide dual layer 3 uplinks into the core, collapsing access and 
distribution); Cat 5500's and 8500's don't implement all the things VoIP is 
supposed to require, but I'd like to see both sides, too.
-- 
Lamar Owen
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