
Quality of Service 155
IP Telephony Configuration Guide
When the QoS level of any remote gateway is below the fallback threshold, all new calls are
routed over the standard circuit-switched network, if fallback is enabled.
The computation is taken from the ITU-T G.107 Transmission Rating Model.
Measuring Intranet QoS
Measure the end-to-end delay and error characteristics of the current state of the intranet. These
measurements help to set accurate QoS needs when using the corporate intranet to carry voice
services.
This section provides information about:
• “Measuring end-to-end network delay” on page 155
• “Measuring end-to-end packet loss” on page 156
• “Recording routes” on page 156
• “Adjusting Ping measurements” on page 157
• “Measurement procedure” on page 158
• “Other measurement considerations” on page 158
Measuring end-to-end network delay
The basic tool used in IP networks to get delay measurements is the Ping program. Ping takes a
delay sample by sending a series of packets to a specified IP address and then returning to the
originating IP address. Ping then displays statistics for the packets. High packet times can indicate
network congestion. If the packets time out, then the remote device is unreachable.
The round trip time (rtt) is indicated by the time field
So that the delay sample results match what the gateway experiences, both the Ping host and target
must be on a functioning LAN segment on the intranet.
Set the size of the Ping probe packets to 60 bytes to approximate the size of probe packets sent by
IP telephony. This determines if new calls need to fall back on the circuit-switched voice facilities.
Notice from the Ping output the difference of rtt. The repeated sampling of rtt allows you to
receive a delay characteristic of the intranet. To get a delay distribution, include the Ping tool in a
script which controls the frequency of the Ping probes, which timestamps and stores the samples in
a raw data file.
The file can be analyzed by the administrator using spreadsheets and other statistics packages. The
installer can check if the intranet network management software has any delay measurement
modules which can cause a delay-distribution measurement for specific site pairs.
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