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Use EF or AF41 for video conferencing

carl_townshend
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Hi All

Can anyone tell me what is the recommended standard for applying QOS for VC systems, I have always seen EF for voice and AF41 for video, however I see people talking about voice and video both using EF in the priority queue.

What are most people doing ?

cheers

 

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Mark Malone
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You should have both set , ef and af41 , ef for the voice and af41 for the video stream , thats recommended and works

Erico Verissimo
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Hello Carl,

 

Here in my company I use ef for voice and af41 for video the difference between them is the drop probability. I think the main point is to use the command (priority) to create a LLQ class and don't forget to use police on this class due to UDP traffic.

 

I hope I helped you!

My question is more, do we put only the voice in the LLQ, and then put the AF41 in CBWFQ class with minimum bandwidth? or do you put voice and video both in LLQ

 

Cheers

voice should get the priority command in its own class then next class video can go into CBWFQ with bandwidth command and i as an option match it against acls with DSCP values set , so yes my answer would be leave voice in LLQ and Video into CBWFQ just make sure you give it enough BW

Put both on LLQ because they use UDP and the application is delay, jitter and packet loss sensitive.

Hi,

I agree with Mark.
You have to consider packet sizes too.
So a G711 voip packet about 200 bytes a video packet may be nearer to your MTU like 1400.
You dont want the VoiP packets queing up because a video packet is hogging the line.

 

Put the Voip in the  priority  "Q" and video in CBWFQ

Regards, Alex. Please rate useful posts.

Joseph W. Doherty
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How to treat VC traffic depends on whether it places its voice and video in different streams, or the same stream, and whether you want to guarantee it VoIP like quality (low latency, low to no drops, low jitter). (If your VC separates the voice from video, you have the option to insure its voice gets treated like VoIP bearer, while you can allow a higher chance of impairment for just the video component.)

You can mix VC and VoIP bearer traffic in LLQ (or PQ), understanding, the VC traffic, if your LLQ bandwidth is constrained, can be adverse to the VoIP traffic. (Using a different LLQ class for VC, though, does allow it to be rate limited separately from VoIP bearer traffic. However, even when there's multiple LLQ classes, there's [on most platforms] only one LLQ.)

As to whether to mark them the same, I recommend not, so that you can easily distinguish between the two types of traffic, if you need to, by just examining the ToS marking.

If you don't place VC in LLQ, you would generally want to provide it a very high bandwidth guarantee to give such traffic almost LLQ dequeuing priority.

Also don't forget when allocating bandwidth for VC, assume you'll need its max possible, not its average.