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If QoS levels of some or all routes fall short of being “Good”, the installer or
administrator needs to evaluate options and costs for upgrading the intranet. Further
network analysis on page 31 provides guidelines for reducing one-way delay. The
evaluation often requires a link upgrade, a topology change, or implementation of
QoS in the network.
The installer or administrator can opt for keeping costs down, and accept a Fair QoS
level for the time for a selected route. A calculated trade-off in quality requires the
installer or administrator monitor the QoS level, reset needs with the end users, and
respond to user feedback.
Further network analysis
This section describes actions possible actions to examine the sources of delay and
error in the intranet. This section and Implementing QoS in IP networks on page 34
discuss several methods for reducing one-way delay and packet loss. The key
methods are:
• Reduce link delay
• Reducing hop count
• Adjust the jitter buffer size
• Setting IP telephony QoS objectives.
Components of delay
End-to-end delay is the result of many delay components. The major components
of delay are as follows:
Propagation delay
Propagation delay is the result of the mileage and the medium of links moved
across. Within a country, the one-way propagation delay over terrestrial lines is
under 18 ms. Within the U.S., the propagation delay from coast-to-coast is under 40
ms. To estimate the propagation delay of long-haul and trans-oceanic circuits, use
the rule of thumb of 1 ms per 100 terrestrial miles.
If a circuit goes through a satellite system, estimate each hop between earth stations
to adds 260 ms to the propagation delay.
Serialization delay
The serialization delay is the time it takes to transmit the voice packet one bit at a
time over a WAN link. The serialization delay depends on the voice packet size and
the link bandwidth, and is the result of the following formula:
IP packet size in bytes
serialization delay in ms = 8 X
link bandwidth in kbit/s
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