There is a significant improvement in the application of MIR and burst coming 
in 14.2 for 450i.  Historically we consumed data at the achievable rate and 
refilled at a fixed rate (once per second).  So this lead to very bursty 
consumption of burst bucket and MIR and quiet link for remainder of the refill 
duration.  We have greatly increased the granularity of the refill on 450i as 
the HW is considerably more capable and able to handle it.  This leads to much 
more rapid refill events which smooths out the consumption.



For an example, here are two speedtest graphs showing a similar outcome of a 
~20M MIR, but you can clearly see how the old method was bursty consumption and 
the new method is smooth.  I think that could definitely cause impact on 
something like voip.



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We will look at doing this on the 450, but it would affect PPS so we need to 
analyze the impact, but it definitely will be there for 450i in 14.2 release.



Regards,

-Aaron



-----Original Message-----
From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Timothy Alexander
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2016 1:52 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] High Priority Uplink / Downlink



We use 100 kbits per call session of G711U. We took a while to get a good 
working config on junos to make sure only voip traffic comes in to the SM 
tagged for high priority. The SM only goes by the Priority Precedence selection 
to check either 802.1p or DSCP to determine transmit channel and you need to 
make sure inbound ethernet traffic to the SM is tagged correctly so that voip, 
and only voip, ends up in the high priority channel.



We also ran into issues with burst allocation and burst rates. In order for the 
high priority channel to work correctly on 450 platform we found you must set 
the Sustained Uplink/Downlink Data Rate and the Uplink/Downlink Burst 
Allocation to be the same (customer regular bandwidth + high priority 
bandwidth) and the Max Burst Uplink/Downlink Rates to double the Total 
Sustained Uplink/Downlink. We confirmed in extensive testing that if we simply 
enable a high priority channel on a normal customer, when the user maxes his 
upload or download we see packet loss on the high priority channel even when 
the upload/download is all low priority traffic and the high priority channel 
is not being 100% used.



Why is this? We're not sure but our network engineers did pretty extensive 
testing and we consistently saw packet loss when configured with a high 
priority channel and a "normal" customer deployment of Sustained Down 4 Mbit / 
Sustained Up 1 Mbit, Downlink Burst Allocation 120000 and max burst downlink of 
10000.



Timothy Alexander

Amplex Internet

www.amplex.net<http://www.amplex.net>

[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>





>>From: Brian 
>>Sullivan<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>

>>To:"[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>"  <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>

>>Subject: [AFMUG] High Priority Uplink / Downlink What do other

>>operators set for the High Priority Uplink / Downlink CIR

that works best for VOIP?


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