The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

Sun Dec 18 20:53:15 UTC 2005

On 18/12/05, Chris Woodfield <rekoil at semihuman.com> wrote:
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> One thing to note here is that while VoIP flows are low volume on a
> bits-per-second basis, they push substantially more packets per
> kilobit than other traffic types - as much as 50pps per 82Kbps flow.
> And I have seen cases of older line cards approaching their pps
> limits when handling large numbers of VoIP flows even though there's
> plenty of throughput headroom. That's not something LLQ or priority
> queueing are going to be able to help you mitigate at all.

Only older line cards ?
Currently NPE-G1's are causing me more headaches in that regard.
At least up until last friday.

/Tony
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