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P0911590 Issue 02 Enterprise Edge 2.0 IP Telephony Configuration Guide
When operating IP telephony services, a customer’s organization must have or
include processes to monitor, analyze, and perform design changes to the IP
telephony and the corporate intranet. These processes ensure that both networks
continue to conform to internal quality of service standards and that QoS objectives
are always met.
Setting IP telephony QoS objectives
The installer or administrator needs to state the design objective of IP telephony, the
purpose of which sets the standard for evaluating compliance to meeting users'
needs. When IP telephony is first installed, set the design objectives based on the
work done in Measuring Intranet QoS on page 27.
The QoS objective is to ensure that for each destination pair, the mean+σ of one-
way delay and packet loss is below a threshold value so that calls between those site
pairs have a accurate QoS level. The graphs in Setting QoS on page 26, with the
QoS measurements, can help the installer or administrator determine what threshold
levels are appropriate. The Table 11 IP telephony QoS objectives describes
examples of IP telephony QoS objectives:
Table 11 IP telephony QoS objectives
In following design cycles, the QoS objective is reviewed and improved, based on
data collected from monitoring of intranet QoS. Having decided on a set of QoS
objectives, the installer or administrator determines the planning threshold. The
planning thresholds are based on the QoS objectives. These thresholds used to
trigger the network implementation decisions when the prevailing QoS is within
range of the affected values. This gives time for implementation processes to follow
through. The planning thresholds can be set 5% to 15% below the QoS objectives,
depending on the implementation lag time.
Intranet QoS monitoring
To monitor the one-way delay and packet loss statistics, install delay and route
monitoring tools such as Ping and Traceroute on the LAN of each gateway site.
See Measuring Intranet QoS on page 27 for guidelines describing the
implementation of Ping hosts, the use of scripting, and information about other
delay monitoring tools. Delay monitoring tool runs continuously, adding probe
packets to each gateway about every minute. The load generated by the probe
packets is not considered a large amount. At the end of the month, the hours with
the highest one-way delay are indicated; within those hours, the packet loss and
standard deviation statistics can be calculated.
Site pair Enterprise Edge IP telephony QoS objective Fallback
threshold setting
Santa Clara/
Richardson
Mean (one-way delay) +
σ
(one-way delay) < 120 ms
Mean (packet loss) +
σ
(packet loss) < 0.3%
Excellent
Santa Clara/Ottawa Mean (one-way delay) +
σ
(one-way delay) < 150 ms
Mean (packet loss) +
σ
(packet loss) < 1.1%
Excellent
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