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Chapter 5 Quality of Service and Bandwidth Management DSCP Marking and IP Precedence Marking
DSCP Marking and IP Precedence Marking
The DBE supports marking of differentiated services code point (DSCP) bits and IP precedence marking
for egress traffic and media relay. Using standard router features, these markings can be used to prioritize
packets for faster delivery or for lower risk of drop under congestion.
The DBE supports statistics collection and saves all QoS statistics, including packets transmitted per
second and packets dropped for exceeding allocated bandwidth on a per-call or per-interface basis.

DSCP Re-Markings

For every media stream, the DBE receives a DSCP value to use in the Real-time Transport Protocol
(RTP) and Real-time Control Protocol (RTCP) packets. The DBE receives these values at the call setup
time on a per-flow basis and maintains the values as a part of the connection table entry. The DBE
modifies the type of service (TOS) bits in the IP header for every outgoing packet and updates the
checksum accordingly.
Tab l e 5-1 Asymmetric Flow Policing—Independent Behavior of Signaling and Media Flows on Two Sides of a Media
Gateway
Access Side (AC)
Back
Bone
Side
(BB)
tman/pol
Property Absent ON OFF
Absent Signaling: No policing
Media: Policing per SDP
Signaling: Policing per Tman
parameters on AC and no policing
on BB
Media: Policing per Tman
parameters on AC and per SDP on
BB
Signaling: No policing on AC and
BB
Media: No policing on AC and
policing per SDP on BB
ON Signaling: Policing per Tman
parameters on BB and no
policing on AC
Media: Policing per Tman
parameters on BB and per SDP
on AC
Signaling: Policing per Tman
parameters on AC and on BB
independently
Media: Policing per Tman
parameters on AC and on BB
independently
Signaling: No policing on AC and
policing per Tman parameters on
BB
Media: No policing on AC and
policing per Tman parameters on
BB
OFF Signaling: No policing on BB
and AC
Media: No policing on BB and
policing per SDP on AC
Signaling: No policing on BB and
policing per Tman parameters on
AC
Media: No policing on BB and
policing per Tman parameters on
AC
Signaling: No policing on BB and
AC
Media: No policing on BB and AC