Presence and IntComm WG

[Jeremy George <>]

Hi Stephen,

On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, Stephen Kingham wrote:

> > > 1)    802.11 is problematic for VoIP.
> >           True, however, getting the demo to work for 802.11 clients
> >          would be a big win.
>
>
> My 2c worth is that 802.11 is very important and critical if you have any 
> demonstration at a conference must work over 802.11.
>
> So problematic?  I assume you just refer to the problem of providing 
> garanteed QoS and not something else?

  Okay, so thinking not only in terms of a trial but more broadly in
terms of a campus or enterprise deployment, do we believe that we've
learned WoWLAN is very important?

  By problematic I meant that getting it to work was problematic.
My memory is that VoWLAN worked great on a lightly loaded WiFi network.
However, in the presence of congestion, the failure mode was ugly and
unpredictable.  I'm not sure that we learned that QoS is a solution.
Did we learn anything reportable about what is needed to make VoWLAN work,
or only that when it doesn't work, it's icky?

- Jeremy