Polycom 1500/1800/2000/4000 manual View or modify the following fields, System.cfg file

IP Network Services

Quality of Service (QoS) is important when transmitting high bandwidth audio and video information. QoS can be measured and guaranteed in terms of:

•Average delay between packets

•Variation in delay (jitter)

•Transmission error rate

DiffServ and Precedence are the two QoS methods supported by the Collaboration Server. These methods differ in the way the packet’s priority is encoded in the packet header.

The Collaboration Server’s implementation of QoS is defined per Network Service, not per endpoint.

The routers must support QoS in order for IP packets to get higher priority.

13View or modify the following fields:

Default IP Service – Conferencing – QoS Parameters

Field	Description
Enable	Select to enable the configuration and use of the QoS settings.
	When un-checked, the values of the DSCP (Differentiated Services Code Point)
	bits in the IP packet headers are zero.
Type	DiffServ and Precedence are two methods for encoding packet priority. The
	priority set here for audio video and IP Signaling packets should match the
	priority set in the router.
	• DiffServ: Select when the network router uses DiffServ for priority encoding.
	The default priorities for both audio and video packets is 0x31. These values
	are determined by the QOS_IP_VIDEO and QOS_IP_AUDIO flags in the
	system.cfg file.
	The default priority for Signaling IP traffic is 0x00 and is determined by the
	QOS_IP_SIGNALING flag in the system.cfg file.
	For more information Modifying System Flags.
	• Precedence: Select when the network router uses Precedence for priority
	encoding, or when you are not sure which method is used by the router.
	Precedence should be combined with None in the TOS field.
	The default priority is 5 for audio and 4 for video packets.
	Note: Precedence is the default mode as it is capable of providing priority
	services to all types of routers, as well as being currently the most common
	mechanism.

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