About the default call bandwidth, About downspeeding, Bandwidth control – TANDBERG D14049.01 User Manual

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D 14049.01
07.2007

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TANDBERG

VIDEO COMMUNICATION SERVER

ADMINISTRATOR GUIDE

Bandwidth Control

Introduction

Getting

Started

System

Overview

System

Configuration

H.323 & SIP

Configuration

Registration

Control

Zones and

Neighbors

Call

Processing

Firewall

Traversal

Bandwidth

Control

Maintenance

Appendices

TANDBERG

VIDEO COMMUNICATION SERVER

ADMINISTRATOR GUIDE

Bandwidth

Control

About Downspeeding

If bandwidth control is in use, there may
be situations when there is insufficient
bandwidth available to place a call at the
requested rate. By default (and assuming
that there is some bandwidth still available)
the VCS will still attempt to connect the call,
but at a reduced bandwidth – this is known as

downspeeding

.

You can turn off downspeeding, in which case
if there is insufficient bandwidth to place
the call at the originally requested rate, the
call will not be placed at all. In this situation
users will get one of the following messages,
depending on the message that initiated the
search:

Exceeds Call Capacity
Gatekeeper Resources Unavailable

Downspeeding can be configured so that it
is applied in either or both of the following
scenarios:

when the requested bandwidth for the call
exceeds the lowest

per-call

limit for the

subzone or pipe(s)
when placing the call at the requested
bandwidth would mean that the

total

bandwidth limits for that subzone or pipe(s)
would be exceeded.


Default Call Bandwidth, Insufficient Bandwidth and Downspeeding

Configuring the Default Call Bandwidth and Downspeeding

The default call bandwidth and downspeeding behavior are configured via:

VCS Configuration > Bandwidth > Configuration

.

You will be taken to the

Bandwidth Configuration

page.

xConfiguration Bandwidth Default
xConfiguration Bandwidth Downspeed


Default call bandwidth (kbps)

Enter the bandwidth value to be used for
calls for which no bandwidth value has been
specified.

Downspeed per call mode

Determines what will happen if the

per-call

bandwidth restrictions on a subzone or pipe
mean that there is insufficient bandwidth
available to place a call at the requested rate.

On

: the call will be downspeeded.

Off

: the call will not be placed.

Downspeed total mode

Determines what will happen if the

total

bandwidth restrictions on a subzone or pipe
mean that there is insufficient bandwidth
available to place a call at the requested rate.

On

: the call will be downspeeded.

Off

: the call will not be placed.

Save

Click here to save your changes

About the Default Call Bandwidth

Usually, when a call is initiated the endpoint
will include in the request the amount of
bandwidth it wishes to use. For those cases
where the endpoint has not specified the
bandwidth, you can set the VCS to apply a
default bandwidth value.

This value cannot be blank. The
default value is 384 kbps.

Bandwidth Control

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