
VoIP White Paper
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• Use your local ISP’s speed test if the remote application will traverse the same provider’s network. Check
your ISP’s home page for a speed test link or visit BroadbandReports.com for a comprehensive list of
216 global sites to test your bandwidth
http://speedtest.broadbandreports.com.
• Test the speed to the remote user’s ISP if they use different providers. This will expose the performance
of the peering connection between ISPs and provide a better perspective of the bandwidth available for
the application.
• Use the free Brix Networks test utility for VoIP for Internet connection assessments. This will test your
Internet connection’s ability to handle VoIP calls. It also gauges the quality of the call in comparison to
traditional and cell phone call qualities. Check them out at
http://www.testyourvoip.com/.
• Allworx does support QoS tagging of voice traffic. However, it will make little difference in the caller’s
experience over the Internet with normal ISP-based services. Bandwidth availability should be the main
concern today because ITSPs do not manage call quality to the customer using QoS features. The ITSPs
that manage call quality only do so within their core networks; quality to the customer through ISPs is
considered a best effort and will not be managed toward your network unless you subscribe to a
dedicated private service with a specific Service Level Agreement (SLA) in place.
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