[ncc-regional-middle-east] Regional Peering

Hi Fahad;

Presently VOIP is blocked in Oman as per TRA instructions. However, this
will change once the market is open this year.

Regards

Salim

On 5/27/06 1:12 AM, "Fahad AlShirawi" <Fahad at 2connectbahrain.com> wrote:

> Congratulations. Would Oman tell allow those companies to run VOIP in between
> themselves? I ask because in the light of the deregulation coming up in 7
> months, things like this will eventually take place.
>  
> 
> Regards,
>  
> 
> Fahad.
>  
>  
>  
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Salim Bader Al Mazrui [mailto:salim at omantel.om]
> Sent: 26 May 2006 20:55
> To: John Leong; mawan at cmu.edu; Salman Al-Mannai; Fahad AlShirawi; Saleem
> Albalooshi
> Cc: ncc-regional-middle-east at ripe.net; MAJEED at qtel.com.qa
> Subject: RE: [ncc-regional-middle-east] Regional Peering
>  
> Dear colleagues;
> 
> I have been following up on the discussions going on and I wanted to inform
> you'll that Omantel has established peering with Etisalat on Wednesday 24th
> May using 5 x E1 links. We are only announcing our local networks to each
> other. In the business sector, many establishments communicate with their
> regional offices in the middle east over the Internet.  We are presently
> seeing over 4 Mbps traffic after establishing the peer.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Salim Bader Al-Mazrui
> Director Informatics Unit
> Networks & Technology
> Oman Telecommunications Company
> 
> Tel: +968-631881
> Fax: +968-695482
> GSM: +968-99423279
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ncc-regional-middle-east-admin at ripe.net on behalf of John Leong
> Sent: Fri 5/26/2006 8:27 PM
> To: mawan at cmu.edu; 'Salman Al-Mannai'; 'Fahad AlShirawi'; 'Saleem Albalooshi'
> Cc: ncc-regional-middle-east at ripe.net; MAJEED at qtel.com.qa
> Subject: Re: [ncc-regional-middle-east] Regional Peering
> 
> Re: [ncc-regional-middle-east] Regional PeeringInteresting point from Malik.
> VoIP. 
> 
> My initial feeling is even if the routing between GCC countries through US is
> totally inefficient from engineering point of view, but if most of the data IP
> traffic is really not between the GCC country, we may not care.
> 
> However, if VoIP is to be a significant service, then I suspect there may be a
> lot of VoIP traffic between GCC countries.
> 
> In which case, one may pay attention to ITU recommendation G.114 on One-way
> Transmission Time (note: not round trip) and its effect on voice services.  It
> suggests to keep the one way latency to under 150 ms. 150 - 400 ms is
> acceptable depending on application.  Anything above 400 ms is not acceptable.
> 
> Regards,
> John
> 
> 
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Malik Awan
>   To: 'Salman Al-Mannai' ; 'Fahad AlShirawi' ; 'Saleem Albalooshi'
>   Cc: 'John Leong' ; ncc-regional-middle-east at ripe.net ; MAJEED at qtel.com.qa
>   Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 3:03 PM
>   Subject: RE: [ncc-regional-middle-east] Regional Peering
> 
> 
>   So far we have seen latency of up to 600ms (900ms not seen yet) within the
> region, which is not good for VoIP traffic.
> 
>   
> 
>   Regards,
> 
>   
> 
>   Malik
> 



Regards

Salim Al-Mazrui
Director of Informatics Unit
Oman Telecommunications Company (Omantel)
P.O.Box: 416, Ruwi, Muscat
PC: 112

Off: +968-24631881
Mob: +968-99423279
Fax: +968-24695482
Emai: salim at omantel.om


-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: </ripe/mail/archives/ncc-regional-middle-east/attachments/20060527/d9295623/attachment.html>