QOS

Quality of Services

The hottest issue now a days in converged network with different type of application and specially mission critical applications is resources and the top one is bandwidth. So traffic engineering mechanism which has the ability to provide different priorities to different application data is known as Qos

Before implementing Qos we need to undergo some steps

1. Network Audit

2. Find out Application Requirement

3. Classify Traffic depending upon

Requirement analysis (how much delay can be bared for email, Voice)

Make group of identical application but keeping in mind don’t make group per application like put Ftp / Web traffic in single group if you don’t do so you will come up with more granular policies and Cisco suggest not less than 4 classes and more than 11 (if you have 4 Classes then its small network that don’t need QOS deployment)

There are Three Main Models of QoS Deployment

1. Best Effort

2. Integrated Service (IntServ)

Like reserving a private resource from point A to B its for really sensitive traffic , for Example RSVP

Request is send to every router between Point A to B for bandwidth reservation for Continuous data

stream (guaranteed Bandwidth)

DISADVANTAGE no one else can use this bandwidth for other purpose and cannot scale well and another disadvantage is if any device in middle don’t support RSVP so the Chain of End to End QOS will be nightmare

3. Differentiated Services (DIFF SERV)

Differentiate traffic depending upon Marking on packet and its the best model to use for the network and scalable for enterprise network

MQC Modular QoS CLI

Allow you to define all your Policies in global config Mode Steps

Step 1:-

Clear Class Map (defining what To match)

specify type of traffic like HTTP traffic ,FTP , HTTPS

Step 2:-

Policy Map what we need to do that we match like allocate Bandwidth

(bandwidth or percentage)or Resource to this class we defined in step 1

Step 3 :-

Attaching this Policy MAp to the physical interface using Service Policy command

CISCO Auto QoS

Only ..!!!! One Command to configure QoS ... ya its Easy to Use

It analyze current config Bandwidth information on interface and finally configure best practice

Cisco QoS configure Cisco has another thing to make it easy for your network Its auto Qos Discovery...... and it discover your network application and consider critical application Like VOIP Citrix ad finally deploy policy .... But One Point Not every automated procedure is 100% perfect.... Remember it :)

Well guys you can configure Wizard based Qos using SDM on new cisco 2800 series routers

QoS_RTR#config t

QoS_RTR(config)#Class-map MATCH-FTP

##match all will match all command in this class and match any will match any one of the command by default is match all

QoS_RTR(Config-cmap)#match protocol ftp

##it will take a bit time because it use Cisco NBAR and Nbar is a bit processor intensive. that’s it its your class map you can view newly created class map using

#show class-map

sooo remember here we have 1 class but Cisco Says not less than 4 and more than 11 ....:) now get ready for policy map.... for allocating resource. you can put more than 200 classes under a single policy map....:)

#Policy-map policy1

#class MATCH-FTP

(You can add up to 256 classes here sooo lot of room don’t worry to run out of it )

# police 36000

#class class-default

#police 15000

Now if traffic is more than 36 Kbps it will drop the access traffic.. Now it will limit FTP traffic to 36 Kbps however rest of traffic that is under class default will be policed at 15000 .. but where .... that’s the point now we need to apply this all here is the last step you need to take bind this one on the interface .

Remember rule of thumb you can define only one policy per interface per direction ... hummm

int e0/1

service-policy input policy1

how ever need on the other way around

service-policy outbound policy1

show policy-map interface

Will show you interface Qos statistics

Intresting Quotes

Quotes

1) Project Manager is a person who thinks nine women can deliver a baby in one month.

2) Developer is a person who thinks it will take 18 months to deliver a baby.

3) Onsite Coordinator is one who thinks single woman can deliver nine babies in one month.

4) Client is the one who doesn't know why he wants a baby.

5) Marketing Manager is a person who thinks he can deliver a baby even if no man and woman are available.

6) Resource Optimization Team thinks they don't need a man or woman; They'll produce a child with zero resources.

7) Documentation Team thinks they don't care whether the child is delivered, they'll just document 9 months.

8) Quality Auditor is the person who is never happy with the PROCESS to produce a baby.

9) Tester is a person who always tells his wife that this is not the right baby.

Hope you will understand the responsibilities of all members in an office

Designing Enterprise Network

To deliver best network design you need to know how to execute conceptual network infrastructure that will support the customers need that achieves effective performance , scalability and reliability

Effective Seven steps techniques are used to design the enterprise Network Infrastructure

1. First and foremost part is to Determine application and Data Requirement like bandwidth need , nature of traffic , Qos Needs , Unicast / Multicast and busty nature of traffic
   Factors to be considered when analyzing Data Traffic Requirements i.e Kbps per active users , Peek Load , Peek timing , Data , video Voice
   
2. After determining type of Traffic Need to design Logical Network i.e Mentioning Vlans , Subnets and determine number of subnets for effective performance and better routing
   
3. Physical design identification of components to be used in the physical lay out i.e Transmission media inter conncetivity between stacks of network , Fiber types Keeping in mind Residency and STP stuff as well
   
4. Selection of Devices a bit debatable issue which vendor to use depending upon there ability , and future needs , as i am Cisco Guy i will choose Cisco as you can get Wirelss to Voip products from Cisco and under single umbrella unified communication infrastructure from a single vendor no mix and mach technology and when you are going to upgrade you find out that vendor don't interact with this ... however selection of Products is tough task depending upon budget and limits as well i.e Select a software option that meet specified needs
   
5. Its time to do some binary word :) I love it .... Selecting IP addressing strategy and numbering good planing Good routing as will help your route summarizing so borrow some time for this and perform it in well mannered way . Selection of Routing Protocol is done
   
6. Edge Distribution Module Designing including connectivity Core and WAN modules.

Whole design stuff is based upon business Need whihc should be clarified before you carry out any work and must address 4 main factors

1. Cost
2. Performance
   
3. Scalability
   
4. Availability

If management want to compromise on availability no Backup fibers no STP easy Setup that all depends .. what is their need.


Better Information Gathering results in Better Design and Better and Easily scalable Network .... So Start with better information gathering and brain storming ;)