
100 Efficient Networking
P0937663 03.1
Some WAN links can exist on top of layer 2 services such as Frame Relay and Asynchronous
Transfer Mode (ATM). The router-to-router link is a virtual circuit, which is subject not only to a
physical capacity, but also to a logical capacity limit. The installer or administrator needs to obtain
the physical link capacity and the QoS parameters. The important QoS parameters are CIR
(committed information rate) for Frame Relay, and MCR (maximum cell rate) for Asynchronous
Transfer Mode (ATM).
The difference between the current capacity and the acceptable limit is the available capacity. For
example, a T1 link used at 48% during the peak hour with a planning limit of 85% has an available
capacity of approximately 568 kbit/s.
Network engineering
Engineer the network for worst-case numbers to indicate the spare bandwidth a LAN must have to
handle peak traffic. It is important to plan so that the LAN/WAN can handle the IP telephony
traffic using the defined codec without delay or packet loss. The installer or administrator must
select one configuration and then set up the LAN/WAN so there is more bandwidth than the IP
telephony output.
Table 12 provides bandwidth characteristics for the transmission of voice over IP for various link
types given codec type and payload sizes. The bandwidths provided in this table explain the
continuous transmission of a unidirectional media stream.
Table 12 VoIP Transmission Characteristics for unidirectional continuous media stream
Codec Type Payload Size IP Packet Ethernet B/W
2
PPP B/W FR B/W
ms Bytes Bytes kbit/s kbit/s kbit/s
G.711
(64 kb/s)
10 80 120 116.8 97.6 103.2
20 160 200 90.4 80.8 83.6
30 240 280 81.6 75.2 77.1
G.729
(8 kb/s)
10 10 50 60.8 41.6 47.2
20 20 60 34.4 24.8 27.6
30 30 70 25.6 19.2 21.1
G.723.1
(6.3 kb/s)
30 24 64 24.0 17.6 19.5
G.723.1
(5.3 kb/s)
30 20 60 22.9 16.5 18.4
Notes:
1) Gray background indicates payload sizes used by Business Communications Manager 2.5 for transmission. Other values
listed indicate payload sizes that the Business Communications Manager 2.5 can receive.
2) Ethernet bandwidth includes the 14 byte Ethernet frame overhead plus a 12-byte inter-frame gap.
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