We're entertaining moving our intranet to Hughes satelite for our remote locations. I'm curious if anyone with Asterisk servers has used satellite, and if so, is the latency an issue. My understanding is that you immediately introduce 250ms latency for travel time up and back down, however it is a much more direct connection then offered by traditional land lines. Perhaps someone has some other suggestions? We've started looking into Global Crossing as an alternative to have more control and reliability between all of our remote facilities, maybe this is a better alternative. Our biggest problem is most of our sites are in smaller cities where your bigger connections are more limited. Looking for any suggestions. Thanks, Ken -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20080823/8dc379ff/attachment.htm
Ken Williams wrote:> We're entertaining moving our intranet to Hughes satelite for our > remote locations. I'm curious if anyone with Asterisk servers has > used satellite, and if so, is the latency an issue. My understanding > is that you immediately introduce 250ms latency for travel time up and > back down, however it is a much more direct connection then offered by > traditional land lines.Everyone I'm aware of that has tried using VoIP over a satellite based internet connection has been /completely/ dissatisfied. A base ping time of 250ms is simply too high for calls to proceed naturally - you'll end up with people talking over the top of each other. The problem with be exacerbated if both ends are satellite based.
Hi, using Asterisk over satellite can be done. Not all satellite providers are created equal and some are better than others. If you are going to do communications between offices that are connected over satellite office to office you may have a problem. My personal choice for satellite connections is the Idirect platform. Tom From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Ken Williams Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2008 9:44 AM To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com Subject: [asterisk-users] Semi-OT Satellite? We're entertaining moving our intranet to Hughes satelite for our remote locations. I'm curious if anyone with Asterisk servers has used satellite, and if so, is the latency an issue. My understanding is that you immediately introduce 250ms latency for travel time up and back down, however it is a much more direct connection then offered by traditional land lines. Perhaps someone has some other suggestions? We've started looking into Global Crossing as an alternative to have more control and reliability between all of our remote facilities, maybe this is a better alternative. Our biggest problem is most of our sites are in smaller cities where your bigger connections are more limited. Looking for any suggestions. Thanks, Ken -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20080823/f2cf24f2/attachment.htm