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Cisco: Mark voice packets at the network edge

By On May 4, 2010 · 2 Comments

You know how Cisco always advise to mark the packet as close to the your network edge as you can? Even more you can find a lot of example where Cisco show how to trust the packets directly on the access switch, but not all the time you can do this.

First because not everybody has devices that mark correct packets (like Cisco IP Phones) but we still have to [...]

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Cisco AutoQoS VoIP

By On November 20, 2009 · Leave a Comment

QoS – one of the most interesting and challenging part of the network engineer’s life. I think I’m not wrong when I’m saying that most engineers that hear the word QoS, react somehow like “ah, that ugly stuff…” I have to be honest and say that QoS is not one of my preferred part, but as a network engineer you have to accomplish all task, not only the one that you like. With QoS you can achieve some great results, and once you have started [...]

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