
28 Engineering guidelines
Enterprise Edge 2.0 IP Telephony Configuration Guide P0911590 Issue 02
The file can be analyzed by the administrator using spreadsheet and other statistics
packages. The installer can check if the intranet’s network management software
has any delay measurement modules which can cause a delay distribution
measurement for specific site pairs.
Delay characteristics vary depending on the site pair and the time of day. The
evaluation of the intranet includes taking delay measurements for each site pair. If
there are important changes of traffic in the intranet, include some Ping samples
during the intranet’s peak hour. For a more complete evaluation of the intranet’s
delay characteristics, get Ping measurements over a period of at least a week.
Measuring end-to-end packet loss
The Ping program also reports if the packet made its round trip correctly or not. Use
the same Ping host setup to measure end-to-end errors. Use the same packet size.
Sampling error rate, require taking multiple Ping samples (at least 30). An accurate
error distribution requires data collection over a greater period of time. The error
rate statistic from multiple Ping samples is the packet loss rate.
Recording routes
As part of the network evaluation, record routing information for all source
destination pairs. Use the Traceroute tool to record routing information. A sample
of the output of the Traceroute tool follows:
C:\WINDOWS>tracert 10.10.10.15
Tracing route to 10.10.10.15 over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 3 ms 1 ms <10 ms tftzraf1.ca.nortel.com [10.10.10.1]
2 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 10.10.10.57
3 7 ms 2 ms 3 ms tcarrbf0.ca.nortel.com [10.10.10.2]
4 8 ms 7 ms 5 ms bcarha56.ca.nortel.com [10.10.10.15]
Trace complete.
The Traceroute program checks if routing in the intranet is symmetric or not for
each source destination pairs. Also, the Traceroute program identifies the intranet
links used to carry voice traffic. For example, if Traceroute of four site pairs gets
the results shown Table 5, you can calculate the load of voice traffic per link.
Table 5 Site pairs and routes
Site pair Intranet route
Santa Clara/Richardson R1-R4-R5-R6
Santa Clara/Ottawa R1-R2
Santa Clara/Tokyo R1-R4-R5-R7
Richardson/Ottawa R2-R3-R5-R6
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