Yes. :) The long answer is, unless your provider's bandwith is _guaranteed_ to _always_ be greater than your total requirements, there will be potential bottlenecks as traffic from different nodes compete with one another. Bear in mind that one server downloading updates is enough to reduce inbound SIP calls to a jittery, garbled mess. Add to that the fact that most (all?) providers have no QoS policy at all, so you are reliant on on a router that is capable of bidirectional control, not just inbound. Having said that, do you know if the firewall or ADTRAN are running some kind of QoS policy already? You might not need to buy extra parts..... Francis On 2014-05-14 06:05, Jason Moran wrote:

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 [1]

FreeSWITCH-powered IP PBX: The CudaTel Communication Server http://www.cudatel.com [2]

Official FreeSWITCH Sites http://www.freeswitch.org [3] http://wiki.freeswitch.org [4] http://www.cluecon.com [5]

FreeSWITCH-users mailing list FreeSWITCH-users@lists.freeswitch.org http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users [6] UNSUBSCRIBE:http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users [7] http://www.freeswitch.org [3]

Links: ------ [1] http://www.freeswitchsolutions.com [2] http://www.cudatel.com [3] http://www.freeswitch.org [4] http://wiki.freeswitch.org [5] http://www.cluecon.com [6] http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users [7] http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users

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