April 29, 2005
Size At The Expense Of Quality
While the VoIP industry may be growing at an unimaginable rate world wide, ISPs are beginning to feel the weight of live feeding packets. Sandvine Inc., a UK based company, began doing a survey on the amount of data streaming from ISP sites in light of VoIP’s growth. From their study, they have identified nearly 1,100 VoIP providers. There are fears that some ISPs will not be able to handle the steady increase in network usage due to VoIP users and the network will fail. Because of this, it is recommended that ISPs structure themselves so that the quality of their services is not put in jeopardy and segment their networks to handle voice better. According to Networking Pipeline:
"ISPs can enhance the broadband experience by prioritizing or reserving bandwidth for latency-sensitive and interactive applications like VoIP," said Sandvine's managing director Chris Colman in a statement Wednesday.
Read more at: Rapid VoIP Growth Threatens Quality Of Service
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