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From: [email protected] 
[[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sambasiva Rao 
MANCHILI [[email protected]]

When we are simulating just SIP signalling messages between our two test
systems at the rate of  greater than 500  UDP packets per second, we
observed some of
Subscribers fail Signalling.After further investigations it is found that
UDP packets are lost  consequently Signalling is failing for
some subscribers intermittently.
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It's difficult to tell what might be going wrong and what might be done to fix 
it
because UDP is, by specification, unreliable.  As a result, various components
of UDP implementations (including the transceiver hardware, the low-level 
drivers,
and the UDP stack, often feel free to cope with various problem situations by
discarding packets.  After all, you are dealing with a data flow of maybe
5 megabits per second.

If you want reliable transfer of data at speeds comparable to the capacity of
the system, you need to use a protocol with reliability features.

Another question to ask is what is the overall packet loss rate.  You should
be seeing losses less than 1%, and given that SIP will retransmit UDP requests,
no single UA should see a large enough string of losses to cause failure
of signaling.  Perhaps the UAs do not retransmit UDP requests like they
should?

Dale

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