<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="" class=""><span style="" class="">qos plays the role when you have traffic congestion: then RTP packets, if marked correctly, would be transported with higher priority.</span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal"><span style="" class="">See also:</span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal"><span style="" class=""><a style="" class="" href="https://github.com/xlab1/voip_qos_probe">https://github.com/xlab1/voip_qos_probe</a></span></div><div class=""
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 style="font-weight:bold">From:</span></b> Jason Moran &lt;jmoran@secureachsystems.com&gt;<br style="" class=""> <b style="" class=""><span class="" style="font-weight: bold">To:</span></b> freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org <br style="" class=""> <b style="" class=""><span class="" style="font-weight: bold">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, May 13, 2014 10:05 PM<br style="" class=""> <b style="" class=""><span class="" style="font-weight: bold">Subject:</span></b> [Freeswitch-users] Is QoS needed / beneficial?<br style="" class=""> </font> </div> <div style="" class=""><br style="" class=""><div style="" class="" id="yiv8140513718"><style style="" class=""><!--
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--></style><div style="" class=""><div style="" class=""><div style="" class="">We currently plug our CentOS 5.x FreeSWITCH server directly into our service provider’s ADTRAN to connect with the outside world, and to a switch for intranet (of which a 2<sup style="" class="">nd</sup> firewall is connected there and to the ADTRAN for our other servers).&nbsp; We are shopping for other providers who are shocked that we don’t have a router in between that is doing QoS to prioritize the voice/SIP traffic.</div><div style="" class=""> &nbsp;</div><div style="" class="">Is a router w/ QoS capabilities a good idea?</div><div style="" class=""> &nbsp;</div><div style="" class="">Thanks,<br style="" class="">Jason</div></div></div></div><br style="" class="">_________________________________________________________________________<br style="" class="">Professional FreeSWITCH Consulting Services:<br style="" class=""><a style="" class=""
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