Jason, I believe Global Crossing supports those sites, keep in mind I don't sell their product, but UUNET should as well.
Regards, Christopher J. Wolff, VP, CIO Broadband Laboratories, Inc. http://www.bblabs.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Jason Lixfeld Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 9:58 AM To: Christopher J. Wolff Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: VoIP QOS best practices Providing your sites are local to the same ISP, that would be fine. Worst case scenario and probably a more likely scenario in most cases is that company A has a satellite office in Boston, one in Sydney and one in Tokyo while their head office is in Toronto. Not a very wide range of providers who can reach those areas, not to mention wether or not they can deliver MPLS. On Monday, February 10, 2003, at 11:52 AM, Christopher J. Wolff wrote: > Jason, > > My strategy would be to use the same carrier at point A and point B and > purchase some kind of high-priority MPLS switching config between the > two. I believe Global Crossing offers something like this where they > differentiate between the proletarian traffic and the uber-business > traffic. > > The other thing to keep in mind is that QoS only comes into play when > you saturate your links. > > Regards, > Christopher J. Wolff, VP, CIO > Broadband Laboratories, Inc. > http://www.bblabs.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of > Jason Lixfeld > Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 9:47 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: VoIP QOS best practices > > > Looking for some links to case studies or other documentation which > describe implementing VoIP between sites which do not have point to > point links. From what I understand, you can't enforce end-to-end QoS > on a public network, nor over tunnels. I'm wondering if my basic > understanding of this is flawed and in the case that it's not, how is > this dealt with if the ISPs of said sites don't have any QoS policies? > > -jL >