Comments on: VoIP, Comm Eating Enterprise Bandwidth

By: Enric

Enric — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:38:48 +0000

I can't see the relation between 80% of VoiP expectation and this graph.

By: Moshe Maeir

Moshe Maeir — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 22:19:44 +0000

I wonder if when they say VoIP they actually mean Skype. After all Skype is P2P and they use your computer as a node, whether you are talking or not.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:28:52 +0000

Wait until enterprises start using virtual worlds internally and externally to collaborate.

By: Daniel Golding

Daniel Golding — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 18:53:59 +0000

Om, this is highly unlikely unless the firms are counting call center VOIP traffic. IMs, VOIP, etc are very small traffic streams. Even a full quality, non-compressed VOIP bitstream WITH control information is less than 96kbps. Usually far far less, due to compression and silence suppression.

IM is tiny. Its just small strings of text in minimal wrappers.

Almost any amount of video, or even normal file sharing will always swamp VOIP.

Of course, if you run a QOS company, you want it to look like there's congestion!