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VoIP over HFC Networks

  • This topic has 11 replies, 1 voice, and was last updated 22 years ago by Mike.
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  • #21210
    zyvn
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    Any thoughts to share?

    #21211
    Rommel
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    Are you talking cable? Docsis 1.1 brings about Unsolicited Grant Service for voip traffic.
    go to the http://www.cablelabs.com

    #21212
    John Robertson
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    Look at Lucent’s web site and check out iMerge.

    #21213
    zyvn
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    Rommel and John, Thanks for the replies. Anybody did engineer the voice traffic over hfc before? Any results?

    #21214
    Rommel
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    when you say HFC…it makes me think of a physical medium. Hybrid Fiber Coaxial. What is the transport?
    HFC has been carrying E1 traffic. I am sure anyone here can talk for days about traffic engineering on circuit switched networks.
    Over a Packet Cable network, is a different story. I am not really big on cable technology but I believe it would have to be based on the symbol rate and stuff along those lines.

    #21215
    zyvn
    Guest

    I am rfrring to PacktCabl/DOCSIS 1.1 as you mntiond.

    #21216
    Rommel
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    Its pretty much the same as you do any other voice, but there are some issues.
    How many users are you aggregating to each port on the head end? How many Erl of traffic per user? ~0.3 Erl per user for residential.
    We know that IP=20 bytes of header
    UDP = 8 bytes and RTP = 12 bytes, payload will depend on the codec and sample period. Add in the L2 headers for DOCSIS, I dont know them so you will have to look this up. This will tell you how many bytes each sample period will take up. Multiply by the packets per second to get the KBps. Figure out how much data speed, depending on QAMS etc… then see how many flows you can shove in. divide data speed by KB per call. Then youre done. This would be a theoretical number not including any data.
    After you get max number of calls, you can figure out how many users you can aggregate to each head end port.
    You would have to leave some space for the signaling of each of these calls too.

    #21217
    zyvn
    Guest

    Thanks Rommel!

    Do you know any online resource on this I can look at?

    #21218
    Rommel
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    I would read the specifications at
    http://www.packetcable.com/specifications.html. This should help you understand the mechanisms used.

    Regards,

    Rommel

    #21219
    Kevin Corcoran
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    Rommel:
    Your previous post said that you estimate 0.3 Erl per residential user. Other posts I search on the Telecom Design Forum indicated typical is anywhere from 0.04 – 0.08 erlangs for residential users. Your figure of 0.3 seems to be several times higher. Can you explain the discrepancy? Thanks.

    #21220
    Rommel
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    Sorry typo…its meant to be .03 Erl. but that would still be off from your benchmark.
    I usually deal with IXCs vs PTTs and LECs, so that would be where the discrepancy lies. 🙂 my knowledge

    #21221
    Mike
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    Prior to their buyout by Comcast, AT&T issued a Request For Information (RFI) that listed the following traffic engineering guidelines to estimate expected load for system components.

    This is based on a 4-Line Broadband Telephony Interface (BTI)/Multimedia Terminal Adaptor (MTA):

    · Average size of Fiber Node: 600 households passed

    · Telephony take rate: 27% initially and approximately 53% thereafter

    · Average number of voice lines per customers: 2.1

    · Average traffic per line: 0.137 Erlangs (HDBH)

    · Average call holding time in busy hours: 180 seconds

    · Peak data rate for high-speed data service:
    – Case 1: 128 Kbps (upstream), 128 Kbps (downstream)

    – Case 2: 128 Kbps (upstream), 512 Kbps (downstream)

    – Case 3: 128 Kbps (upstream), 1.5 Mbps (downstream)

    – Case 4: 300 Kbps (upstream), 3 Mbps (downstream)

    · Data take rate: 25% initially and approximately 50% thereafter

    · At a given time 30% of the data subscribers are logged-on and 15% of the logged-on subscribers actively transfer data.

    Hope this helps.

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