Bandwidth Requirements - Cisco SPA301 Administration Manual

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Bandwidth Requirements

Depending on how you have your IP phones configured, each call requires 55 to
110 kbps of the bandwidth in each direction. For example, using G.729 with an
average business-grade broadband Internet connection supporting 1.5 Mbps
downstream and 384 kbps upstream, a total of seven (7) simultaneous
conversations can be reliably supported with adequate bandwidth available for
file downloads.
We recommend using Cisco SPA IP phones with QoS-capable networking
equipment that can prioritize the VoIP traffic. A QoS-enabled device prioritizes the
packets going upstream to the ISP.
The table approximates the bandwidth budget for each side of the conversation
(in each direction) using different codecs and the number of calls the network
might support. The table is based on the following assumptions:
• Bandwidth calculated with no silence suppression, as the use of silence
suppression can reduce the average bandwidth budget by 30 percent or
more.
• 20 millisecond of payload per RTP packet
Codec Estimated
Bandwidth
G.711 110 kbps
G.722 110 kbps
G.726-40 87 kbps
G.726-32 79 kbps
G.726-24 71 kbps
G.726-16 63 kbps
G.729 55 kbps
For more information about bandwidth calculation, refer to the following web sites:
http://www.erlang.com/calculator/lipb/
http://www.packetizer.com/voip/diagnostics/bandcalc.html
2 Calls 4 Calls
220 kbps 440 kbps
220 kbps 440 kbps
174 kbps 348 kbps
158 kbps 316 kbps
142 kbps 284 kbps
126 kbps 252 kbps
110 kbps 220 kbps
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6 Calls 8 Calls
660 kbps 880 kbps
660 kbps 880 kbps
522 kbps 696 kbps
474 kbps 632 kbps
426 kbps 568 kbps
378 kbps 504 kbps
330 kbps 440 kbps
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