Measure intranet QoS 147
In contrast, the site pair Santa Clara/Ottawa has both QoS levels of mean
and mean+standard deviation falling in the excellent region. The customer
has more confidence that during peak traffic period, the "excellent" service
levelis likely to be upheld (better than 84% chance under the assumption of
Normal distribution).
Other measurement considerations
The PING statistics described above measure the intranet prior to IP Trunk
3.01 (and later) installation, which means that the measurement does not
take into consideration the expected load created by the IP Trunk3.01 (and
later) users.
If the intranet capacity is tight and the IP Trunk 3.01 (and later) traffic
significant, consider making intranet measurements under load. Load can
be applied using traffic generator tools. The amount of load should match
the IP Trunk3.01 (and later)-offered traffic estimated in "IP Trunk 3.01 (and
later) traffic engineering" (page 95).
Estimate voice quality
The perceived quality of a telephone call is dependent on many factors,
such as codec characteristics, end-to-end delay,packet loss, and the
perception of the individual listener.
The E-Model TransmissionPlanning Tool is a model used to produce a
quantifiable measure of voice quality based on relevantfactors. Refer to two
ITU-T recommendations (ITU-T E.107 and E.108) for more information
on the E-Model and its application.
A simplified version of the E-Model is applied to IP Trunk3.01 (and later) to
provide an estimate of the voice quality that the user can expect, based on
various configuration choices and network performance metrics.
The simplified E-Model is as follows:
R = 94 – lc – ld – lp
where
lc = codec impairment (see Table29 "Impair ment factorsof codecs"
(page 148))
ld = delay impairment (see Table30 "Impairment factors due to network
delay" (page 148))
lp = packet loss impairment (see Table31 "Impairment factors due to
packet loss" (page 148))
Nortel Communication Server 1000
IP TrunkFundamentals
NN43001-563 02.01 Standard
Release 5.5 21December 2007
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