What is the importance of performing a trace route?
Just as a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, so also will the performance of an IP connection be only as good as the poorest hop in the route. The number of hops in the route isn’t necessarily significant: if all the hops in the route are low-latency, high-bandwidth connections, a route with 30 or more hops can provide an excellent link for Remote Phones and Esi-Link sites. However, just one poorly performing connection in a route can cause a routing of only a few hops to be unacceptable for Remote Phone operation.
Just as a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, so also will the performance of an IP connection be only as good as the poorest hop in the route. The number of hops in the route isn’t necessarily significant: if all the hops in the route are low-latency, high-bandwidth connections, a route with 30 or more hops can provide an excellent link for Remote Phones. However, just one poorly performing connection in a route can cause a routing of only a few hops to be unacceptable for Remote Phone operation.
