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Designing for Collaboration
V O I C E A N D V I D E O C O N S I D E R A T I O N S A N D S E R V I C E P L A C E M E N T
Terminology Overview
- (^) Grade of Service (GoS) – probability a call will be blocked due to congestion CCDA mostly focuses on voice with a little bit of video
- (^) Erlang – measure of call time used per unit time. 2 calls for 60min during 1hr = 2 Erlangs
- (^) Busy hour – The most used hour during a work day for calls
- (^) Busy hour traffic – measure of call time used during busy hour, in erlangs
Deployment Models - Centralized
Centralized call processing in single-site and multi-site environments
- (^) Centralized CUCM cluster in server farm/data center
- (^) Survivable remote site telephony (SR ST) at remote sites in the event of WAN failure
- Converged network with PSTN site connectivity Images courtesy of cisco.com
Deployment Models - Distributed
Distributed call processing in multi-site environments
- (^) Separate CUCM cluster at each site
- (^) Separate Unity cluster at each site
- Most redundant deployment
- (^) Call manage Express (CME) integrated call manager for ISRs
- (^) Supports up to 450 phones. Valid for branch office design Images courtesy of cisco.com
QoS Trust Boundary
- (^) Best practice is to mark traffic as close to the source as possible – ie. phone
- Auto-QoS will enforce trust boundary at the Cisco IP phone
- (^) The practice of defining where traffic handling markings are trusted from
- (^) Bad actors can cause improper traffic to be handled with priority by marking at workstation
Voice and Video Service Limits
- (^) Voice and video are both very sensitive to service degradation
- (^) Video is more sensitive to packet loss due to delta encoding Acceptable limits
Voice Video
RTT 150ms^ 150ms
Jitter <35ms^ <30ms
Packet loss % <1%^ <0.05%
Video Capacity and Throughput
- (^) H.264 is by far the most popular video codec today
- (^) Table gives the typical bandwidth requirements of H.264 video sources Table courtesy of cisco.com
Q&A Which IP telephony design model should you implement to fulfill these requirements:
- (^) Single, large location with many remote sites
- (^) Multi-site WAN connectivity
- (^) Requires SR ST for call processing redundancy A. Distributed B. Centralized C. Clustered D. Decentralized