Hi, we've recently ventured into the FTTH space, previously we've only participated in the ME and dedicated space. A new challenge is the management of internet delivery services to consumers, no matter how much capacity you throw at a node, consumers will find a way of abusing it through the use of torrents etc. We are currently using NBAR on the applicable P router to try and catch traffic that would be applicable to a degree of packet loss during congestion, however NBAR is not classifying all torrent traffic and or CDN traffic, thus those consumers who are torrenting are effectively over utilizing that node. We have thought about various appliances i.e. Packeteer, Allot etc. however the cost is excessive, I'm also not certain that other ISP's would use appliances on networks with thousands of subsribers. Per Flow QoS on the ASR's and similar Cat 6500's looks like it is a viable option, however managing from the CLI isn't viable and QPM is now obsolete.  Can anyone give some input and guidance around this element, what we are wanting to achieve is to gradually decrease the flow rate of traffic which would be seen as torrenting, but not decrease the flow rate on video or similar content, i.e. youtube etc. If we reduce the flow rate over time, i.e. allow full speed based on the subscribers purchased line speed, and reduce it over time to a predefined limit, i.e. 2Mbps of a 10Mbps line, we might well shape incorrect traffic. Customer experience should be given priority, i.e. browsing, youtube etc. but abuse generally shaped, but how to identify the abuse and effectively manage it, typically with a GUI is the challenge. Any comment and input would be welcomed. ... View more

Hi, I have a requirement where a Cisco 7911 phone extension should only be able to call internal extensions and some external numbers. (mobile numbers) I have tried several methods including creating an extension and setting the call-forward all to the external number but still when i call it the internal cor list prevents the call. Does anyone know how to achieve this? Many thanks ... View more

Hi, Fairly new to ACS. Our 4.2 has been working fine until about 2 weeks ago. I have an account as part of the admin group, that group is set to lvl15 priv. When I telnet into any of our routers or linux servers, we can log in, but once we issue a sh run on routers or ls on ix boxes the session freezes. It appears to be anything related to listing etc. I can get into exec mode on our routers, those that are not part of any aaa, same problem, can't sh run ... View more