VCS Bandwidth Control - is downspeeding possible?

[James Smyth]

Hi all,

We have a link on our VCS Control  that we want to limit to 1MB for total calls. We tried putting a pipe on the link, but this just means that it will take a couple of calls at 512, and then downspeeds the third one to something ridiculous like 20k - rubbish. Is there any way to make it downspeed the existing calls and even everything out?

The other option is to limit individual calls to, say, 384, but then we don't want to do that if there's only one call on the go - seems like a bit of a waste of bandwidth.

Anyone know any clever tricks we can try here?

[Paulo Souza]

Hi James, welcome to Cisco Support Community!

Unfortunatelly, the bandwidth management feature of the VCS is totally static, it is not smart enough to downspeed the calls in order to allow another calls to join. You can only set a total bandwidth and a per call bandwidth.

VCS uses a gatekeeper logic, that's why it manages the bandwidth that way.

Regards

Paulo Souza

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[Dany Daoud]

Hi Paulo,

I have a quick question regards total bandwidth per call. If you have the VCS-C set for 512k does that mean 430k plus video transmit plus over head packet ?

thanks,
Dany