DISQUS

James,

Thank you for the posting. I would like to point out the following facts about the data:

- Based on comments from the testyourvoip user community more than half the tests were run for pre-qualification purposes (prior to signing up for VoIP). In those cases the users did not know if they had problems or not prior to running the tests.
- Close to one million tests were conducted for this study.
- The types of impairments and degradation factors that we analyzed point to network congestion. We are further analyzing the data to understand the location of congestion (core, last mile, etc.).
- Via the testyourvoip portal we measured and continue to measure "end-to-end" VoIP quality on the internet.
- The tests are conducted between the user's desktop to one of seven locations across the globe as selected by the user. The seven locations are connected to the internet via high BW connections without any impairments (they are monitored).

I encourage you to take a look at the site (www.testyourvoip.com), run the test, and examine the data.

Finally Brix Networks does not take any position in the Net Neutrality debate. The study simply points out that regardless of Net Neutrality or not successful VoIP deployments require end-to-end QoS.

Regards,
Kaynam Hedayat
CTO, VP Eng
Brix Networks