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Is there a mximum EF setting within QoS

MichaelTushaw
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I am configuring an ASR1002 which requires a large number of Voice connections. Is there a maximum limit (percentage or bandwidth) that can be allocated to the EF queue

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I don't know for an ASR1K, it might depend on your IOS version.

That noted, generally Cisco recommends not to exceed one third of link bandwidth for LLQ.  They make this recommendation to leave sufficient bandwidth for other traffic, but another issue is, if you use too much bandwidth for LLQ, the traffic may queue itself, introducing delay and/or jitter to your VoIP traffic. In general, staying at or below one third should be great, going to 50% is probably okay, but going above two thirds is when you're really likely to start to self queue.  I.e. if your VoIP needs more than about half to two thirds of your link bandwidth, you probably start to need to consider obtaining more bandwidth.

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Aaron Harrison
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Hi

By default you can reserve 75% of the available bandwith (shared between all QoS classes including your priority/EF class).

You can override that with the max-reserved-bandwidth command if you need to, but the idea is you leave some bandwidth available for 'other' stuff, even if it's just your control/routing protocols.

See here: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios-xml/ios/qos_conmgt/configuration/xe-3s/asr1000/qos-conmgt-xe-3s-asr1000-book/qos-conmgt-oview.html#GUID-CF485056-2BE9-4245-9A72-AF8890F4DE66

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many thanks for the assistance

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I don't know for an ASR1K, it might depend on your IOS version.

That noted, generally Cisco recommends not to exceed one third of link bandwidth for LLQ.  They make this recommendation to leave sufficient bandwidth for other traffic, but another issue is, if you use too much bandwidth for LLQ, the traffic may queue itself, introducing delay and/or jitter to your VoIP traffic. In general, staying at or below one third should be great, going to 50% is probably okay, but going above two thirds is when you're really likely to start to self queue.  I.e. if your VoIP needs more than about half to two thirds of your link bandwidth, you probably start to need to consider obtaining more bandwidth.

many thanks for then assistance