Mitel SX 200 IP NODE Instructions Guide
Here you can view all the pages of manual Mitel SX 200 IP NODE Instructions Guide. The Mitel manuals for Communications System are available online for free. You can easily download all the documents as PDF.
Page 11
11 • Ports should be configurable to accept untagged information, pass this on to a specified VLAN, as well as accepting tagged information. The port should also strip off tagging for data from a specific VLAN, but not strip data from other VLANs. This is used when connecting the dual port phones and PCs to the network. Some other VLAN guidelines for use with voice include: • Additional bandwidth is always good! • Use full duplex wherever possible • Don’t use VLAN 0 • Set Priority to value 6 for...
Page 12
12 Actions-> Back Add Edit Delete Help Port DEFAULT_VLAN voice_vlan data_vlan test4 ----- + ------------ ------------ ------------ ------------ 1 | Untagged Tagged No No 2 | Untagged Tagged No No 3 | Untagged Tagged No No 4 | Untagged Tagged No No 5 | Tagged Tagged Tagged No 6 | No No No Untagged 7 |...
Page 13
13 With a Layer 3 device, such as a router, the packet per second (PPS) throughput is also important. With an IP-Phone the frame rate is every 20ms. This means that the phone will send 50 packets per second and will also receive 50 packets per second. Beware though how vendors might specify the PPS rating. For example, with two phones connected to a router each port will send and receive 50PPS. That’s 100PPS per port, requiring that 200PPS to be handled. However, between the phones only 50PPS went one...
Page 14
14 In the diagram, the network switch ports connected to the Dual Port Phones must be able to accept both untagged information and tagged information. The untagged data will then be translated to a ‘data’ VLAN (1), whereas the voice will be destined for a Voice VLAN (2). In the outgoing direction, these ports must also pass information from the Voice VLAN still tagged, but traffic from the ‘data’ VLAN must be sent untagged for the devices that are incapable of handling VLAN information. The requirement...
Page 15
15 and device. In this instance, the loading on the network is almost back to that of a shared environment. The Layer 2 devices maintain a list of addresses and port location in internal memory. If the list is small, then the level of broadcasts can also increase since new information is rapidly ‘aged’ out of the list. Hence a large flat network can potentially grind to halt, not because of genuine traffic loading, but simply due to the amount of broadcast traffic that will be needed. Using subnets helps...
Page 16
16 CalculationFormulaResult Remote Phones10Total CCS at remote site Remote phones x 6CCS 60CCSPercentage trunk traffic Total CCS x 65% 39CCSPercentage intercom traffic Total CCS x (100 – trunk traffic)% 21CCS Total traffic over WANTotal traffic – local traffic60.0CCS Thus: • The total traffic handled is 60CCS. From an earlier calculation it was highlighted that a T1 WAN link, without QoS, could handle 6 G.711 ‘voice channels’. From ErlangB tables with P.001 blocking such a link can handle 41.1CCS. There...
Page 17
17 each the other two nodes. Obviously in the second scenario less bandwidth will be needed per node to and from a particular node, but the total per node will remain about the same, i.e. 7.5% + 7.5% = 15%. 4.3.1 IP Trunk Limit working example Consider the following example: • Two equal sized systems • Exclusively 120 IP Trunks/phones • Calls from TDM, or to TDM devices including trunks, use G.711 CODEC • Calls between IP devices use the G.729 CODEC • Traffic is typically 35% internal, the...
Page 18
18 *1 Note: The number of channels needed purely for internal traffic is 7. For external traffic the total number is 10. However, together the total is only 13. How is this so? The reason is that a number of channels will have shared use, in this case it must be 4 (10+7-13). The higher G.711 rate is used to ensure adequate bandwidth at all times. *2 Note: The bandwidths of 100k and 40k are used assuming that Ethernet is used between the two nodes. For example if PPP were used between the two nodes then...
Page 19
19 5. Getting Started The above two sections have dealt with network conditions and call traffic. However, before any of this can occur, the system needs to be installed and the end devices need some code to get them running. 5.1 Start-up sequence for phones: This is the normal sequence of events for a dual port IP Phone, where VLANs are implemented:• Power up• Run ‘Boot’ code• Request IP address (untagged) through DHCP• Receive IP address from default VLAN (data VLAN) and specific phone and system...
Page 20
20 5.4 DHCP Lease Time To allow users to move off the local sub-net, or to let new people join a subnet, a method is needed to give up an IP address and also obtain a new address. If a phone is disconnected it obviously cannot talk to the DHCP server, so another method is needed to free up unused addresses. This is the DHCP lease time. This helps provide the Dynamic in DHCP by clearing out unused IP addresses and making them available for new requests. The timer can be set from a few minutes to weeks....