[cisco-voip] Any MeetingPlace Users?

[Marcus Lundbom]

Jason,

> Of course ... I wouldn't dream of doing this without assured QoS. We
> will have full end-to-end QoS to all sites before the VC solution is
> implemented. Anybody with experience using MCI's PIP network want to
> comment here??

I can't comment with regards to video yet, but I do have some comments
regarding voice. We have a customer with different locations troughout
Europe and Asia, we performed a procurement for an operator that could
provide end-to-end QoS and had the ability to deliver to future planned
locations (America) and so on (the number of operators that actually can
deliver this is easily counted). MCI won that one with PIP. So far, we
have not had any problems related to MCI and their PIP network (the
small outages that have occured was pinpointed to "local PTT" (as
always). MCI has actually delivered a terrific service, reliable and
with great project management for the rollout. What *might* be a
drawback with MCI PIP compared to other operators is the fact that they
don't provide very many classes of services, but if there is no need to
differentiate between multiple data applications to different classes,
then you're fine for both Voice, Video and some data classes.

As a side note, the users actually claims that they have better call
quality between Europe and Asia when using the IP-network then what they
had with TDM. :-) 


/M