mostly uptime from the provider but cell is also a driving force. We have just rolled ATM out (about 3 months ago) and it seems that I am fielding frame outages reguarly and my new ATM sites have been more stable. We are 24x7, so outages are ugly to us.....
Patrick Ramsey wrote: > hmmm that is interesting... Even with ATM's overhead? Is there that much > more reliabillity? (I'm never done voice over either) Is reliabillity the > only advantage? > > And why is it more reliable? Do you mean with packet/cell loss or uptime > from the provider? > > -Patrick > > >>> "George Murphy CCNP, CCDP" 10/04/01 02:17AM >>> > I would go ATM, due to transport architecture and reliability, especially > with voice... > > John Neiberger wrote: > > > Just a quick opinion poll for those of you who have implemented VoIP. > > Given a medium-sized partially-meshed network, would you prefer to use > > ATM or Frame Relay for your transport? Assume that most locations would > > have DS1 speeds only. > > > > I ask this because I've been hearing a mixture of opinions. It seems > > to me that ATM would allow us to utilize its CoS. With FR you don't > > have much control over your traffic beyond FRTS and LLQ. Once it hits > > the cloud you're at its mercy. > > > > However, I haven't heard any details yet but apparently someone at > > Cisco thinks that ATM has some scalability problems that FR doesn't > > have. I can't imagine what that would be so it will be interesting to > > hear what he has to say. I'd be surprised if he suggests FR instead of > > ATM. > > > > Right now, we have a large frame relay network but I'm seriously > > considering migrating portions of it to ATM. After hearing these > > conflicting opinions I'm really not sure which path to take. > > > > Any thoughts? > > > > Thanks, > > John Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=22070&t=21948 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]