RE: VoIP QOS best practices

That doesn't seem to make a lot of sense - is it that QoS doesn't work as advertised?

As someone who is looking to deploy VoIP in the near future this is of particular interest.

C.

That doesn't seem to make a lot of sense - is it that QoS doesn't work as advertised?

That's generally true as well. But why would you need it? What's the
advantage to be gained in using QoS to throw away packets, when the
packets don't need to be thrown away?

    > As someone who is looking to deploy VoIP in the near future this is of particular interest.

Go ahead and deploy it. It's easy and works well. It certainly doesn't
need anything like QoS to make it work.

                                -Bill

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.