Thursday, April 1, 2010

RSVP

RSVP (Resource ReSerVation Protocol) is a protocol used in VoIP to manage QoS (Quality of Service).

RSVP works by requesting that required bandwidth and latency be "reserved" for the VoIP telephone call by every network device between the two endpoints.



RSVP is defined in RFC 2205: Resource ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP).

RSVP is a unicast and multicast signaling protocol, designed to install and maintain reservation state information at each router along the path of a stream...

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