[TriLUG] Site to Site VPN over the net? Good enough for VoIP?

[Ryan Leathers]

VPN over xDSL access loop is a fine Frame Relay replacement for lots of
services, but VoIP is probably never going to be one of them. 

On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 08:54 -0500, Chad Thomsen wrote:
> Was wondering if anybody is doing this successfully at there BUSINESS (not
> looking at home usage).  I have a 7 site network and was thinking about
> converting from ITC Deltacom frame to speakeasy.net DSL (since they offer a
> CIR like service) but was wondering if very many folks have been successful
> with it.  BIG question is performance.  What happens if the traffic on the
> internet backbone is really heavy?  Would it not effect the performance of
> the VoIP?  Speakeasy.net can gaurantee minimum bandwidth to and form the
> "intenet cloud" from each location but once traffic is traveling accross
> that cloud you are at the mercy of the internet backbone.
> 
> Any feedback would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Chad