On Sat, 2006-02-25 at 00:21 +1100, David Ankers wrote: > Aha, micro seconds in networking terms is normally written usecs or us > (actually it's the greek letter mu as in ulaw) rather than ms which are > milliseconds seconds - what had me puzzled was that it was stated that this > could harm the voice path! > > > The difference can also cause unnecessary delays and therefor echo in the > > path. For example, procurve switches typically have 13ms switching time, > > the high-end netgears about 21ms. As soon as you stack a couple of > > switches you are talking 26ms vs 42ms extra delay in the path! > > There is then only 8 usecs between the two switches, how on earth would this > make any difference to the voice path at all? Let alone induce any echo... > > Obviously the originally poster didn't understand the difference. And based > on this, he's probably advising people not to use Netgear switches for > voice, oh dear. > >
Agree , previous statement was incorrect and I should probably not post late at night ;-) A few microseconds delay in the path obviously doesn't cause extra echo. Thank you for pointing that out. == Conrad _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users