qos plays the role when you have traffic congestion: then RTP packets, if marked correctly, would be transported with higher priority. See also: https://github.com/xlab1/voip_qos_probe ________________________________ From: Jason Moran <jmoran@secureachsystems.com> To: freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2014 10:05 PM Subject: [Freeswitch-users] Is QoS needed / beneficial? 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 2nd firewall is connected there and to the ADTRAN for our other servers). 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. Is a router w/ QoS capabilities a good idea? Thanks, Jason _________________________________________________________________________ Professional FreeSWITCH Consulting Services: consulting@freeswitch.org http://www.freeswitchsolutions.com FreeSWITCH-powered IP PBX: The CudaTel Communication Server http://www.cudatel.com Official FreeSWITCH Sites http://www.freeswitch.org http://wiki.freeswitch.org http://www.cluecon.com FreeSWITCH-users mailing list FreeSWITCH-users@lists.freeswitch.org http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users UNSUBSCRIBE:http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users http://www.freeswitch.org