Re: Re: Voice Traffic Shaping questions

From: Prakash H Somani (pdsccie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Mon Jul 08 2002 - 10:09:02 GMT-3


   
Hi,

This is a good attachment. Explains almost everything about
FRTS.

regards...Prakash

On Mon, 08 Jul 2002 Anthony Pace wrote :
>Thank you very much for these responses. I very much appreciate
>them.
>
>So you are saying that WFQ would give the voice more bandwidth
>by
>virtue of the fact that the packets had some precedence bits set.
>Are
>you also saying that this would not really be good enough due to
>the
>fact that WFQ would still attempt to give other traffic so much
>of the
>"pie" that it could wreck the voice call?
>
>In my Tc question you indicated that I was correct. Am I corredct
>that
>the mere existance of some "voice" keywords thrttles down the Tc,
>or is
>it the CIR to Bc ratio that determines this. If it is the latter
>than
>that explains alot.
>
>Anthony Pace
>------------------------------------------------
>4. How do we toggle "tc" interval? All the examples say 125ms.
>for DATA
>and 10ms. for voice. Do we control it when we set the CIR and Bc
>? Is
>it the presence of voice keywords in the config that will
>throttle it
>to 10s?
>
>If I set CIR=64K and Bc=8K have I set Tc to 125ms?
>If I set CIR=64K and Bc=640 bytes then have I set Tc to 10ms?
>
>You are correct again.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>On Sun, 07 Jul 2002 09:21:34 -0400, "Steven Ridder"
><saridder@hotmail.com> said:
> > Answers In-line---
> >
> > 1. Is "FRAME-RELAY VOICE BANDWIDTH xx" just used for voice
>over Frame
> > or is it applicatble to VoIP over Frame? I have seen examples
>both ways
> > (in books) and I am wondering if one may be a typo.
> >
> > I think it has too do with VoFR if I remember correctly, but
>I'm too
> > lazy to
> > look it up.
> >
> > 2. If I want to shape for VoIP, can I get away with setting
>precedence
> > bits on the IP dial-peer and enableing WFQ on every interum
>interface
> > on every interum router? I read somewhere that just turning on
>WFQ
> > would cause the precedence bits to be taken into
>consideration. Is this
> > just wishfull thinking on my part?
> >
> >
> > The WFQ algorithm does take IP Prec values into consideration.
>So if I
> > have
> > a voice call with DiffServ EF value, it will certainly give me
>more
> > avail BW
> > than an e-mail, but that's not enough when you are using
>voice/video.
> >
> > WFQ is what I'd call a "shared" method. WFQ works like shares
>of a
> > company.
> > If I join a startup, and the company has 8000 shares to give
>sway,
> > and I
> > get 4000 of them, I'm looking pretty. I have 50% of the
>shares. If
> > the
> > company grows and it needs to issue more shares to more
>employees, say
> > it
> > releases up to 80,000 shares, my 4000 shares just became 5%.
> >
> > WFQ woeks the same way. If there are just two types of
>traffic going
> > across
> > a link, say an e-mail and a voice conversation. Say the voice
>had 50%
> > of BW
> > guaranteed. My voice call is good and I'm happy. Then say
>some more
> > people
> > came on line and began browsing the web, watching real player,
>etc..
> > The
> > WFQ algorithm has to allot them some of the BW to them as
>well, and it
> > does
> > it by diluting the current allocations. So, the other flows
>get some
> > BW
> > guaranteed and my 50% could go to 5%, destroying my call.
> >
> > 3. If there are multiple routers between the dial-peers, do we
>need to
> > apply our traffic-shapaing mechanism to all interum interfaces
>on all
> > interum routers?, (Queing, RSVP (or whatever mechanism we
>chose)) I
> > would think the answer is yes if we think the link could
>degrade the
> > quality of the phone calls. I would think that the only
>execptions
> > would be that we set the precedence bits, and compress headers
>only on
> > INGRESS into the IP cloud.
> >
> > Yes, you need a common corporate policy to handle traffic.
> >
> >
> > 4. How do we toggle "tc" interval? All the examples say 125ms.
>for DATA
> > and 10ms. for voice. Do we control it when we set the CIR and
>Bc ? Is
> > it the presence of voice keywords in the config that will
>throttle it
> > to 10s?
> >
> > If I set CIR=64K and Bc=8K have I set Tc to 125ms?
> > If I set CIR=64K and Bc=640 bytes then have I set Tc to
>10ms?
> >
> > You are correct again.
> >
> > If anyone knows any of these I would be very gratefull to hear
>the
> > answers.
> >
> > Anthony Pace
> >
> >
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> > anthonypace@fastmail.fm
> >
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