
Notes
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Zones are an artificial mechanism to control
the number of calls made on a VoIP
network. The concept is often referred to as
Call Admission Control or CAC. CAC is
necessary to prevent too many calls
affecting call quality. In a TDM network this
cannot occur as each call has its own
dedicated circuit but in packet telephony we
are sharing bandwidth and hence issues can
occur.
If the 2 phones in zone A call each other thy
have plenty of Intra zone bandwidth so the
call can proceed. The system will deduct an
amount of bandwidth equivalent to the calls
usage from the Zone whilst the call is in
place, and add it back when the call clears.
Thus if there is insufficient bandwidth to
allow the call it will be refused protecting the
quality of other calls.
In the diagram the 2 zones have a low speed
link between them of 512K. IntraZone calls
will be fine but InterZone calls to Zone 1 will
be more restricted.
The Strategy for calls allows us to choose a
suitable codec depending on the call type. In
the diagram we have selected BQ (Best
Quality) for Intra Zone calls which will result
in the G711 codec being used and
consequently more bandwidth. However for
InterZone calls we have selected BB (Best
Bandwidth) which means a higher
compression codec using less bandwidth will
be selected if available. This will usually be
G.729 and VAD (Voice activity Detection)
may also be selected to save even more
bandwidth allowing more calls to use the link
at the same time.
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