Applying Bandwidth Limitations To Subzones; Bandwidth Consumption Of Traversal Calls; D14049.07 March - TANDBERG D14049.04 Administrator's Manual

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Subzones
Types of limitations
You can apply bandwidth limits to the Default Subzone, Traversal Subzone and all manually
configured subzones. The types of limitations you can apply vary depending on the type of subzone,
as follows:
Limitation
Description
Total
Limits the total concurrent bandwidth being
used by all endpoints in the subzone at
any one time. In the case of the Traversal
Subzone, this is the maximum bandwidth
available for all concurrent traversal calls.
Calls entirely
Limits the bandwidth of any individual call
within...
between two endpoints within the subzone.
Calls into or
Limits the bandwidth of any individual call
out of...
between an endpoint in the subzone, and an
endpoint in another subzone or zone.
Calls
The maximum bandwidth available to any
handled by...
individual traversal call.
For all these settings, a bandwidth mode of:
NoBandwidth means that no bandwidth is allocated and therefore no calls can be made.
Limited means that limits are applied. You must also enter a value in the corresponding
bandwidth (kbps) field.
Unlimited means that no restrictions are applied to the amount of bandwidth being used.
Use subzone bandwidth limits if you want to configure the bandwidth available between one
specific subzone and all other subzones or zones.
Use pipes if you want to configure the bandwidth available between one specific subzone
and another specific subzone or zone.
If your bandwidth configuration is such that multiple types of bandwidth restrictions are placed on
a call (for example, if there are both subzone bandwidth limits and pipe limits), the lowest limit will
always apply to that call.
Overview and
System
Introduction
status
configuration
D14049.07
March 2010

Applying bandwidth limitations to subzones

Can be applied to
Default Subzone
Traversal Subzone
Manually configured subzones
Default Subzone
Manually configured subzones
Default Subzone
Manually configured subzones
Traversal Subzone
VCS
Zones and
Clustering and
configuration
neighbors
peers
How different bandwidth limitations are managed
In situations where there are differing bandwidth limitations applied to the same link, the lower limit
will always be the one used when routing the call and taking bandwidth limitations into account.
For example, Subzone A may have a per call inter bandwidth of 128. This means that any calls
between Subzone A and any other subzone or zone will be limited to 128kbps. However, Subzone A
also has a link configured between it and Subzone B. This link uses a pipe with a limit of 512kbps.
In this situation, the lower limit of 128kbps will apply to calls between the two, regardless of the
larger capacity of the pipe.
In the reverse situation, where Subzone A has a per call inter bandwidth limit of 512kbps and a
link to Subzone B with a pipe of 128, any calls between the two subzones will still be limited to
128kbps.

Bandwidth consumption of traversal calls

A non-traversal call between two endpoints within the same subzone would consume from that
subzone the amount of bandwidth of that call. A traversal call between two endpoints within the
same subzone must, like all traversal calls, pass through the Traversal Subzone. This means
that such calls consume an amount of bandwidth from the originating subzone's total concurrent
allocation that is equal to twice the bandwidth of the call – once for the call from the subzone to
the Traversal Subzone, and again for the call from the Traversal Subzone back to the originating
subzone.
In addition, as this call passes through the Traversal Subzone, it will consume an amount of
bandwidth from the Traversal Subzone equal to that of the call.
Call
Bandwidth
processing
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