Welcome To Implementing Voip: Voip Network Best Practices
Welcome To Implementing Voip: Voip Network Best Practices
Implementing VoIP:
VoIP Network Best Practices
Implementing VoIP:
VoIP Network
Best Practices
Agenda
Introductions
From Hype to Adoption
VoIP Myths
Anatomy of a VoIP Call
VoIP Metrics
Lab 1: VoIP in Action
Break
The Three Phases of Successful VoIP Deployment
Phase 1: Site Survey and Testing
Phase 2: Monitoring the Roll Out
Phase 3: Ongoing Troubleshooting and Maintenance
Break
Lab 2: VoIP Call Monitoring
Best Practices Summary
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Probe
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Top Talkers
Analysis
GigaStor
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Appliance
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-- William Stofega,
VoIP research director, IDC
Myth #1
Myth #2
Myth #3
Voice conversations
are secure
H o w V o IP p h o n e s s e n d a u d io s t r e a m s o v e r a n e t w o r k
Send R e c e iv e
W AN
LA N LAN
01001101 01001101
T o ta l d e la y b u d g e t o f 1 5 0 m s o r le s s ( o n e w a y )
Sensitive to delay
Normal traffic
Not sensitive to delay
Example: FTP, HTTP, e-mail, etc.
Tolerant traffic
Sensitive to delay
Loss tolerant
Buffered by receiver
Example: streaming video, Internet radio, etc.
Real-time traffic
Delay and loss sensitive
Example: VoIP
R-Factor / MOS
IP P h o n e
N e tw o rk
J it te r b u ff e r Codec
8 7 9 7 4
4 3 3 2 1 01001101
9 6 5 8 6 5
V o I P p a c k e t s c a n a r r i v e a t t h e r e c e iv in g p h o n e o u t o f s e q u e n c e , l a t e , e a r ly , o r n o t a t
a ll. I P p h o n e s u s e a ji t t e r b u f f e r t o r e c o n s t r u c t t h e p a c k e t s t r e a m a t t h e r e c e iv in g e n d ,
d u p lic a t in g m is s i n g p a c k e t s o r f i ll in g i n w it h w h it e c o m f o r t n o is e w h e n n e c e s s a r y .
What is it?
per call…
and Expert…
What is it?
QoS is a bit setting used by routers and switches to prioritize packet flow
per call…
and Decode…
per call…
and Decode…
H o w V o IP p h o n e s s e n d a u d io s t r e a m s o v e r a n e t w o r k
Send R e c e iv e
W AN
LA N LAN
01001101 01001101
T o ta l d e la y b u d g e t o f 1 5 0 m s o r le s s ( o n e w a y )
Summary
G.711
1 User
G.711
100 Simultaneous
Users
G.711
1000 Simultaneous
Users
V o I P c a ll
m anager
A c c e s s la y e r
C o r e s w itc h
W est C oast
O f f ic e
M PLS
M esh
V o I P c a ll
C o r e s w itc h m anager
A c c e s s la y e r
East C oast
O f f ic e
W est C oast
O ffic e
V o IP C a ll
M anager
A c c e s s s w itc h M PLS
M esh V o IP C a ll
M anager
C o n n e c tio n v is ib le to a n a ly z e r
E ast C oast
C o n n e c tio n h id d e n fr o m a n a ly z e r
O ffic e
W est C oast
O ffic e
V o IP C a ll
M anager
A c c e s s s w itc h
M PLS
M esh C o re
S w itc h V o IP C a ll
M anager
C o n n e c tio n v is ib le to a n a ly z e r
C o n n e c tio n h id d e n fr o m a n a ly z e r
E ast C oast
O ffic e
Aggregate Jitter
Call Scoring
Codecs Used
Total Calls
Is the network
responding as
expected with the total
number of calls?
QoS
Ongoing Maintenance
Proactive Monitoring
Schedule Reporting
Automate
problem
resolution
Shows where
thresholds
were exceeded
Review Expert
thresholds
crossed or
exceeded
Live VoIP
Troubleshooting
Summary
Best Practice #1
Implement
Quality of Service
Prioritization
Automate problem
resolution
10/100/1000 Probe
Appliance
“Traffic statistics in Observer 11's VoIP Expert tool are more robust, with call
summary, quality scoring and detailed per-call metrics such as call status,
current jitter, call setup, duration, teardown, MOS/R-factor and QoS levels.”
- Dan Hong, Redmond, November 16, 2005
“Like all Observer features, VoIP Expert is based on the Network Instruments Distributed
Network Analysis architecture, which means VOIP analysis is available across multiple
topologies such as local-area network, wide-area network, Gigabit Ethernet and 802.11a/b/g.”
- Michelle Speir Hasse, Federal Computer Week, November 21, 2005