Expanding on this comment... The insurance company's customer service staff (definitely not techies) had no trouble at all adjusting to the latency, indeed, they didn't even appear to notice it... They had considerably more trouble remembering how to do a blind transfer to the spanish speakers...
Tim -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim McKee Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 9:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion' Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Extending E1's over a Satellite link Actually, a single hop satellite conversation isn't much worse than some cell phone systems. ~350ms latency. After a few moments of talking the normal person adjusts to it without much notice. Indeed, many overseas links in the past (and present for that matter) are done via satellite. Tim -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Julio Arruda Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 5:33 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Extending E1's over a Satellite link Tim McKee wrote: > Guys: > > I routinely run multiple phones over our satellite system (I'm the VP > of Network Services at SDN Global, a satellite bandwidth provider > located in Charlotte NC, US). > > Just last week I went to West Palm Beach, FL US and turned up a 10 > phone emergency call center, complete with ACD queues for an insurance company. > We were able to run all ten phones (Cisco 7960Gs, SIP) on G.729 codecs > back to my * server in Charlotte NC US. No special settings were > required on * or the phones. > > The satellite system *must* support *REAL* QoS and must have jitter < > ~100ms. Traditional satellite systems have *lots* more jitter than that. > The actual latency _doesn't matter_ as long as the jitter is steady. > We are even doing 'double-hop' phone calls successfully, where the > latency is double the normal latency. > > Anyone that wants more detailed info contact me off-list. Out of sheer curisity, the delay itself doesn't make the conversation 'bad' (meaning, walkie-talkie/roger-and-over-like ?) The codec itself should introduce some dozens of ms, but the satellite, is not at least 300ms one way or something like that ? adding the codecs, and the jitter buffers and etc..I wonder how good/bad is it ? _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users