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[Kireeti Kompella <kireeti@juniper.net>]

Hi Curtis,

On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Curtis Villamizar wrote:

> I think the SPs should speak as to whether the bandwidth inefficiency
> of 30 byte payloads or the potential to lose a packet with a 200 byte
> is a greater problem.

Two questions (more probably to others than to you):
a) what is the relative bandwidth of voice?
   (i.e., if voice accounts for <10% of a link's capacity, it
   may not be worth worrying about even a 100% overhead); and
b) if a 30 byte voice packet got dropped, would you expect that
   6 other voice packets that were temporally close would escape
   the hatchet?  I.e., how big really is the penalty of a 200 byte
   packet?

Kireeti.