
130 Quality of Service
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Business Communications Manager router QoS support
With a Business Communications Manager system, the VoIP gateway and the router are in the
same box. The Business Communications Manager router performs QoS and priority queuing to
support VoIP traffic. The router supports VoIP in the following two ways:
• In a DiffServ network, Business Communications Manager system acts as a DiffServ edge
device and performs packet classification, prioritization, and marking. The router performs
admission control for H.323 flows based on the WAN link bandwidth and utilization. When
received, the WAN link marks the H.323 flows as Premium traffic and places the flows in the
high priority queue.
• In a non-DiffServ or a legacy network, the router manages the WAN link to make sure
Premium VoIP packets have high priority in both directions when crossing a slow WAN link.
Network Quality of Service
Business Communications Manager VoIP Gateway uses a method like the ITU-T
Recommendation G.107, the E-Model, to determine the voice quality. This model evaluates the
end-to-end network transmission performance and outputs a scalar rating “R” for the network
transmission quality. The packet loss and latency of the end-to-end network determine “R”. The
model correlates the network objective measure “R”, with the subjective QoS metric for voice
quality, MOS or the Mean Opinion Score.
This model provides an effective traffic building process by activating the Fallback to
Circuit-Switched Voice Facilities feature at call set up to avoid quality of service degradation.
New calls fall back when the configured MOS values for all codecs are below the threshold.
The model is the reason for compression characteristics of the codecs. Each codec delivers a
different MOS for the same network quality.
Network monitoring
The VoIP Gateway network monitoring function measures the quality of service between the local
and all remote gateways on a continuous basis. The network monitoring function exchanges UDP
probe packets between all monitored gateways to collect the network statistics for each remote
location. All the packets make a round trip from the Sender to Receiver and back to the Sender.
From this information, you can calculate the latency and loss in the network for a distinct location.
Note 1: Quality of Service monitoring is supported only on Business Communications Manager,
M1 with ITG card, and i20xx.
Note 2: The Quality of Service threshold is configurable per remote gateway.
Note: Differentiated Service (DiffServ) is a QoS framework standardized by the Internet
Engineering Task Force (IETF).
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