User's Manual

Managing video on your network
Administering Avaya Video Conferencing Solutions 6.1 27
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Site 2, designated Location B, uses video desksets and a few video units in small conference
rooms, and several audio endpoints. Location B is allocated 25 Mbps with 5 Mbps supporting
the audio pool and 20 Mbps supporting the video pool.
For Release 6.1, audio and video endpoints share bandwidth within a location, so even though
a certain amount of bandwidth is allocated to each pool, the audio pool can borrow bandwidth
from the video pool if necessary.
Bandwidth pools
For SIP, you can categorize users by audio or video users, dividing them into two pools:
● Audio—The audio pool contains bandwidth for all audio calls, including the audio
component of multimedia calls.
● Video—The video pool contains bandwidth for the video portion of a call made by a video
user. You can set this pool to be shared. When this pool is shared, audio-only calls are
allowed to borrow bandwidth from this pool. This pool is shared by normal or priority video
users.
The following tables provide examples of how you could specify the bandwidth settings for your
network.
Example 1: SIP audio only -
Bandwidth settings for SIP audio only
Total Bandwidth Audio
Bandwidth
Pool
Video
Bandwidth
Pool
Share
Bandwidth
Pools?
25 Mbps 25 Mbps 0 Mbps no
In this example, you do not want to allocate any bandwidth for
video. You want to configure the network to use audio only. Bandwidth settings for SIP audio
only shows how you would configure the audio bandwidth for a single location.
See Setting up locations on page 32 for setting up bandwidth pools using Locations.
Example 2: SIP video only -
Bandwidth settings for SIP video only
Total Bandwidth Audio
Bandwidth
Pool
Video
Bandwidth
Pool
Share
Bandwidth
Pools?
100 Mbps 0 Mbps 100 Mbps no
In this example, you do not want to allocate any bandwidth for
audio. You want to configure the network to use video only.
Bandwidth settings for SIP video only
shows how you would configure the bandwidth for this
example.