Plldwnyrpnts
join:2003-04-19
Chicago, IL
| Can they win the battle?
How can Vonage keep up with Clearwire's blocking of traffic? Can they manage to maintain multiple customers using different ports? I would appear that Vonage would have to switch Clearwire users to all use different ports which may or may not make it difficult to monitor or maintain.
GL Vonage. Clearwire is just another shady company in my book. |
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davoice
join:2000-08-12
Saxapahaw, NC
 ·Comporium
| 1) Yes they can manage different users using different ports. Broadvox Direct even lets its users choose their own port settings in the end user portal (from a list of about 30) - so the user doesn't have to call to get it changed.
2) It would be so much simpler for hardware vendors and companies like Vonage if they'd just make the NIC in their softswitch answer on some well known port - i.e. port 80 (HTTP) or 443 (HTTPS). I'd like to see someone start blocking port 80 traffic on their network and see how many people get up in arms b/c they can't surf the web.
VoIP isn't limited to any specific port. TCP and UDP traffic really don't care what port is in use. The only reason we have usual ports for things like VoIP is to make it easy for equipment using multiple ports to avoid applications trying to use conflicting ports.
}Davoice |
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