"Stick that in your ADSL pipe and phone it"

Ad-hoc / impromptu 8 person conference call fun with Office Communicator 2007 and Office Communications Server 2007

Aaron Tiensivu's Blog — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 07:08:56 GMT

It looks like a typical group chat session, but what makes it interesting is everything you can't see from a simple screenshot. This OCS 2007 session started as a two person "Hey, is this working?" voice chat that blossomed into a full blown eight

re: "Stick that in your ADSL pipe and phone it"

Aaron Tiensivu — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 07:11:12 GMT

Strange timing, but we were doing the same type of OCS testing today. Worked great.

re: "Stick that in your ADSL pipe and phone it"

Marco Liechti — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 20:13:36 GMT

Hey, it would be interesting to repeat the phone test while doing the speed test, or downloading a large file. This is usually cracking the nut... data traffic filling your pipe with large IP packets. Having a smaller upstream bandwith, your peer will probably suffer first :-).

RTA on its own can't enforce QoS, and it will have to trade off delay (latency) vs speech quality (packet loss, garbled voice...) while trying to mitigate the factors of the imperfect network.

Let us know when you get a chance to repeat your test under forced conditions.

re: "Stick that in your ADSL pipe and phone it"

Jeff Goodwin — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 05:07:32 GMT

I just received my updated TanJay/PolyCom phone today. I took it home, plugged it into router and authenticated back to the office. It worked flawlessly! I have been using both the TanJay and PolyCom speaker phone for a few months now making outbound phone calls to people over the PSTN and it works great; oh yeah SIP to SIP works too.

Tanjay in the wilderness

Unified Communications @ Microsoft — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 00:20:28 GMT

A few weeks ago,  I put together a post about my experiences of using the Tanjay at home and a few