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Troubleshooting VoIP

I've done a few seminars on troubleshooting VoIP at VoiceCon (Fall 07 and Spring 08).  Somewhere along the way, someone mentioned a relatively new web site to me:

voiptroubleshooter.com

I finally took time today to look at it.  The content is potentially useful, depending on your level of expertise.  If you're a long-time VoIP troubleshooter, then you'll already know much of what's there (or should).  If you're getting started, it has some useful background knowledge and procedures.  The main menu has items about VoIP basics, online diagnosis, tools and resources, and links for additional reading.  It is not a lot of information, which is sometimes helpful when starting out in a new technology.

One of the things that I didn't see there were procedures for diagnosing problems specific to voice gateways or to DSP (digital signal processor) pools used for transcoding.  In the Network Symptoms page, they have a nice matrix of the types of problems that generate unacceptable jitter, packet loss, or out of order packets (interesting, nothing there about unacceptable delay).  In the matrix, I would have put Duplex Mismatch under Intermittently, not Continuously, because it is most often a factor when the link with the duplex mismatch is running at high enough loads that the duplex mismatch causes packets to get damaged.  But still, it is a good start - more than I've seen in other places.

Under the Online Diagnosis link, there's a neat calculator in which you select the codec, frame size, and packet loss rate and it shows you the MOS score, R Factor, and required bandwidth.

This site may be a reasonable resource if you're starting to work with VoIP.

  -Terry
 

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Terry Slattery, CCIE #1026, is a senior network engineer with decades of experience in the internetworking industry. Prior to joining Chesapeake NetCraftsmen as a full time consultant, Terry was the founder and CTO of Netcordia, and inventor of NetMRI, a suite of network management products. Terry started Netcordia as a consulting company in 2000 and transitioned to a network management product company in 2003. During the consulting days, he used his network design and implementation skills to lead a team in the design and implementation of a high availability network at a brokerage clearing house. Terry is the former President and founder of Chesapeake Computer Consultants, Inc., a networking and computer systems training and consulting company. He co-invented and patented the vLab(tm) internet-based remote lab system. He is co-author of the McGraw Hill text Advanced IP Routing in Cisco Networks. Terry led the team that developed the current Cisco IOS user interface under contract to Cisco Systems. Terry is experienced in the design and installation of large TCP/IP based networks and is a successful network protocol instructor. He is the second Cisco Certified Internetworking Expert (CCIE) #1026 and the first outside of Cisco. He enjoys membership on the Vanderbilt University Engineering School’s Industrial Advisory Board and the IEEE.

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