[asterisk-users] Bandwidth shapping device

[Gordon Henderson]

On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Damon Estep wrote:

> Why do that?
>
> Just traffic shape each user/group of IP addresses to the total
> bandwidth you want them to have and then set up a low latency queue for
> voip traffic, that way the voip bandwidth can be used for data when
> there are no calls but will give VoIP traffic priority over other
> traffic.
>
> Any old refurbished Cisco 2611 or 2621 will do the trick.
>
> Look up "low latency queuing" and "traffic shaping" on cisco.com
>
> If you are doing NAT on the router I recommend a general deployment (GD)
> 12.3 IP feature set IOS image.

I have to say, that unless you are quite good at driving Linux or *BSD's 
firewall/traffic shaping mechanisms, then I'd probably go for a Cisco - 
especially if this is a full-on corp-rat environment.

I would use a Linux box, but then I've been using Linux boxes for a great 
number of years including setting up some hairy/scarey traffic management.

Gordon


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> I'd use a MikroTik or 2
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> From: "Ronald Wiplinger" <ronald at elmit.com>
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>> I have a link to a building (e.g. 10Mb/s) and want to split up the
>> bandwidth to different users. Each user should get e.g.,  512kB/s plus
>> 256kB/s dedicated for VoIP.
>>
>> What kind of device can I use for that ?  (managing switch ??? which
> one?)
>>
>>
>> bye
>>
>> Ronald Wiplinger
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