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Need Advise on VoIP Traffic

bennyng11
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Hello All

I have a chance to upgrade our company router to acquire new business, and would like to ask for the opinion from the group.

Here is our traffic profiles

200 Mbps to uplink ISP

~ 500k packet per second

BGP4 with ~ 15 peers

Redundancy required

I'm looking at 7604 with SUP720, not sure if it is enough. here is the config

CISCO7604  Cisco 7604 Chassis1
     WS-X6748-GE-TX  Cat6500 48-port 10/100/1000 GE Mod: fabric enabled, RJ-451
     MEM-XCEF720-1GB  Catalyst 6500 1GB DDR, xCEF720 (67xx interface, DFC3BXL)1
     WS-F6700-DFC3CXL  Catalyst 6500 Dist Fwd Card- 3CXL, for WS-X67xx1
     FAN-MOD-4HS  High-Speed Fan Module for 7604/6504-E1
     7604-RSP720CXL-R  Cisco 7604 Chassis,4-slot,Redundant System,2RSP720-3CXL,2PS1
     2700W-AC  Dummy PID 2700 W AC Power Supply for 76042
     MEM-RSP720-CF512M  C7600 RSP720 Compact Flash memory1
     MEM-A-RSP720-4G  RSP720 RP Memory Upgrade to 4G (2 x 2G Modules, SO-DIMM)1
     MEM-A-RSP720-SP2G  C7600 RSP720 SP 2G Memory (SO-DIMM)1
     MEM-RSP720-CF512M  C7600 RSP720 Compact Flash memory1
     MEM-A-RSP720-4G  RSP720 RP Memory Upgrade to 4G (2 x 2G Modules, SO-DIMM)1
     MEM-A-RSP720-SP2G  C7600 RSP720 SP 2G Memory (SO-DIMM)1
     CAB-AC16A-90L-IN  16A AC right angle pwr cord -International2
     S764AEK9-15301S  Cisco 7600-RSP720 IOS ADVANCED ENTERPRISE SERVICES SSH

Thanks in advance

Benny

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paolo bevilacqua
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You can do this with e.g a 3925E, or 7200 NPE-G1 or G2.

No need for 7600, that are for much, much higher traffic volumes.

Thanks,

I'm currently a pair of 7200, NPE-G2 for 60mb traffic at peak, the cpu went up to 90%..have been searching the way to reduce the cpu loading with no luck. seems there are something in the npe-g2. so we decided to change the router to a more powerful one..

this is my previous post.

https://supportforums.cisco.com/message/3849823#3849823

Benny

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I've just reviewed your other posting.  Normally, your data volume should be easily dealt with by a NPE-G2.  However, your configuration is not typical.  I suspect your configuration is causing a much, much higher CPU consumption per packet.  Unfortunately, as your CPU consumption is principally interrupt, we can't easily tell which parts of your configuration is causing the high CPU consumption.

Nominally, what you've selected as a replacment would be ideal if whatever is consuming all your CPU is done within the 7600's hardware.  Unfortunately, there are packet forwarding decisions on 7600s that are punted to the main processor.  If your traffic does this on a 7600, you might obtain even worse performance.

If you have current maintenance, I would suggest opening a case with TAC.  Identify what's consuming the CPU on your 7200.  Once it's actually understood what's the cause, you might be able to remeditate on the 7200 or then know whether another platform (e.g. ASR1k, 7600) might be more suitable.

PS:

Oh, from your 7200 configuration, doubt it will make much of a difference, but you might also enable Turbo ACLs.  Shouldn't hurt, might help.

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