Lawyer NEWS - World's First IP and VoIP Guidelines
Australia's Communications Alliance has published the world's first quality of service guidelines for IP and VoIP networks. The guidelines were developed with industry and based on international recommendations.
The VoIP guideline provides guidance on a number of factors including:
- delay (the time from mouth to ear);
- echo (the amount of speech reflected back to the speaker);
- codec choice (the method for converting speech into electrical signals and back again); and
- loss (the amount by which the electrical signal fades as it travels along a line).
The IP network provider will sign up for three traffic classes:
- a "best efforts" class;
- a managed class for time critical services with low tolerance for interruption; and
- another managed class for services that are still time critical but with slightly less sensitivity to interruption.
The guidelines address the challenge of using a single broadband connection to combine voice and/or video applications with less time sensitive applications such as web browsing and email, while not compromising the experience of the voice/video.
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