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Re: IP/SONET vs IP/ATM/SONET

  • From: "Johannes Krohn" <KROHN@ffm.pandacom.de>
  • Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 10:22:53 +0100

> Isnt compression of voice done in VoIP ?  In this case, the amount of bandwidth used 
> will probably be as low as in the case of AAL2 multiplexing.

Right. You can of course use the same compression algorithms for 
VoIP. That was not meant to be my point. I only wanted to point out 
that there are better ways to do voice over ATM than simply using 
(unstructured) CES.
 
> However, Unless IP gets a large numbers of voice packets IP is going to introduce a lot 
> of overhead...right ? 

Good point. As long as "IP guys" always point out that ATM introduces 
overhead (cell headers, AAL-5 trailer, LANE header) in data services 
and tend to claim this to be a killer argument against ATM, it is the 
other way round when talking of voice services. The overhead 
introduced for compressed voice circuits in AAL-2 compared to 
compressed voice in IP (with the needed IP and protocol headers; RTP 
on UDP? ) should be quite small when using reasonable frame sizes 
(long frames->large delay->service degradation).

> Is there a standard as to how voice circuits are put onto IP.?

A good point to start reading is the ITU-T spec H.323. This is 
framework document on multimedia services over packet based networks 
where IP is one packet based network.

   Johannes 
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