RFC 4594 (Informational) says the Telephony service class SHOULD use the Expedited Forwarding PHB, and it characterizes telephony as having very low tolerance to loss, delay and jitter.

Checked 2026-09-25

The Telephony service class SHOULD use Expedited Forwarding (EF) PHB, as defined in RFC3246
Vendor
IETF
Product
DiffServ
Subsystem
service classes
Deployment
any
Region
not restricted
Release range
RFC 4594
Checked
2026-09-25

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WarmTransfer. (2026, September 25). Choppy and robotic audio on calls: source note choppy-audio-troubleshooting-rfc4594-telephony-ef. WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/choppy-audio-troubleshooting-rfc4594-telephony-ef

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@misc{warmtransfer-claim-choppy-audio-troubleshooting-rfc4594-telephony-ef,
  title  = {Choppy and robotic audio on calls: source note choppy-audio-troubleshooting-rfc4594-telephony-ef},
  author = {{WarmTransfer}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/choppy-audio-troubleshooting-rfc4594-telephony-ef},
  note   = {Source note choppy-audio-troubleshooting-rfc4594-telephony-ef, checked 2026-09-25}
}

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