[VoiceOps] Future of the Traditional PSTN vs VOIP and VoLTE

[Erik Flournoy]

Using BGP VERY Broadly here just as a peering example is all not how it
actually routes.



On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 12:27 PM, Alex Balashov <abalashov at evaristesys.com>
wrote:

> Even BGP is not a decentralised, democratic, peer-to-peer utopia. Routes
> are distributed down in a rather hierarchical fashion; effectively, an
> oligopoly of global Tier 1 backbone operators ends up the clearinghouse.
>
> And the weaknesses and vulnerabilities in BGP to the extent that it IS a
> very large "circle of trust" - though, as I said, the degree to which this
> is actually true is frequently exaggerated - suggest it's not a great model
> to emulate for voice/multimedia sessions.
>
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