It all came down to egress queuing in my situation, we have oodles of bandwidth between POPS but bursty traffic was causing the calls to become choppy. It was only noticeable during peak times of the day and I noted that we were only pushing about 30mbit over the WAN.
WRR queuing with an expedite queue for voice traffic on egress ports on cat 3550's was enough. 30 odd handsets spread over a Wan linked with 45mbit microwave between pops. POPS basically consist of a 3550 at each site. This whole QoS setup is in no way scalable, but I tried to pull it off at the start without QoS. If I had the opportunity again I would have built it correctly at the start. As someone else has already noted in this thread, you cant predict the internet or what's coming out tomorrow.. So if you've got the opportunity to implement your QoS strategy during the design & implementation phase it's certainly better then later on down the track. Regards, Daniel Hooper -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Turnbow Sent: Wednesday, 23 May 2007 3:21 PM To: Nassess, George; [email protected] Subject: Re: [c-nsp] VoIP without QoS Hi George We run Voip services to enterprises and only do Qos on the (small) termination lines up/down with llq. Otherwise the core has no Qos and plenty of bandwidth. Works great as long as there is bandwidth and the routers can handle the forwarding. Brian -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nassess, George Sent: martedì 22 maggio 2007 18.35 To: [email protected] Subject: [c-nsp] VoIP without QoS Hello List, I am in the process of extending our distributed VoIP call center to a partner company, and their networking staff are extremely adamant that they do not wish to implement QoS on their remote LAN, the DS3 link that the voice traffic will traverse, or the core LAN in our shared datacenter. I am fairly well aware of the arguments on both sides of the debate of Mr. QoS (me) versus Mr. Excess bandwidth (them) but I wanted to know if there is anyone on the list who has actually deployed an enterprise VoIP solution without QoS, and whether the deployment was successful as an ongoing solution or if QoS had to be added at a later date. Thanks in advance for any experiences you can share, Gus Nasses [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
