Linksys SPA 900 manual Bandwidth Requirements1, Installing the SPA900 Series IP Phone

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Chapter 2 Getting Started

Establishing Connectivity

Installing the SPA900 Series IP Phone, page 2-10

Bandwidth Requirements1

Depending on how you have your IP phones configured, each call requires 55 to 110 kbps in each direction. Therefore, using G.729 as the voice codec setting, and with an average business-grade broadband Internet connection supporting 1.5 Mbps downstream and 384 kbps upstream, a total of seven

(7)simultaneous conversations can be reliably supported with adequate bandwidth available for file downloads.

Linksys recommends using the Linksys IP phone with QoS-capable networking equipment that can prioritize the VoIP application traffic. QoS features are available on many Linksys data networking switches and routers. A QoS-enabled router prioritizes the packets going upstream to the ISP. Table 2-1illustrates the bandwidth budget using different codecs.

Table 2-1 Ethernet Bandwidth Budget for Off-Net VoIP Calling

 

Approximate bandwidth budget for

 

 

 

 

Codec

each side of conversation

2 calls

4 calls

6 calls

8 calls

 

 

 

 

 

 

G.711

110 kbps

220 kbps

440 kbps

660 kbps

880 kbps

 

 

 

 

 

 

G.726-40

87 kbps

174 kbps

348 kbps

522 kbps

696 kbps

 

 

 

 

 

 

G.726-32

79 kbps

158 kbps

316 kbps

474 kbps

632 kbps

 

 

 

 

 

 

G.726-24

71 kbps

142 kbps

284 kbps

426 kbps

568 kbps

 

 

 

 

 

 

G.726-16

63 kbps

126 kbps

252 kbps

378 kbps

504 kbps

 

 

 

 

 

 

G.729

55 kbps

110 kbps

220 kbps

330 kbps

440 kbps

 

 

 

 

 

 

This table is based on the following assumptions:

Bandwidth Calculated with No Silence Suppression

20 Millisecond of payload per RTP packet

Note The use of silence suppression can reduce the average bandwidth budget by 30% or more.

For more information about bandwidth calculation, refer to the following websites:

http://www.erlang.com/calculator/lipb/

http://www.packetizer.com/voip/diagnostics/bandcalc.html

Installing the SPA900 Series IP Phone

This section describes how to install and verify operation of SPA900 Series IP phones.

Check to make sure that you have the following package contents:

Linksys 900 Series phone

Ethernet cable

Power adapter (must be ordered separately for PoE units: SPA922, SPA942, and SPA962)

 

Linksys IP Phone Administrator Guide

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