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Design and Implementation of Bandwidth Monitoring, Line

Aggregation of VoIP
Tun Tun Oo , Aaron Don M. Africa

Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering

De La Salle University, Manila
2401 Taft Ave., Malate, Manila 1004,
Philippines, [email protected], [email protected]

ABSTRACT connected many copper cable networks are not looking good
for the landscape beauty of country or cities.
Nowadays, there are many ways to get the Internet connection Cisco devices are used all over the world that they are led in
such as ADSL, Mobile, Wifi, WiMax, Fttx. Furthermore, the the backbone network and delivering a seamless integration of
Internet connection can get anywhere and any times. In fact, technology innovation, hardware platform support, and
the PBX systems would be low interested because the PBX business critical services. Cisco operates their own operating
(Private Branch Exchange) is used circuit switching system system that it is called IOS (Internet Operating System). It is a
and is also used to expend the phone bills [1]. The VoIP system complex operating system optimized for Internetworking that
uses the packet switching which it can use everywhere in the it is separate from the hardware. The user runs the
place of getting an Internet connection. Moreover, the Phone man-machine interface to perform function setting on the
bill costs are lowest and flexible to use in the new era. In this network device. The functions provided are as follows: the
paper, the VoIP technology is used bandwidth control and line function, preference setting of the network device and the
aggregation to get the network speed in the network connection port, and the data transmission and security
infrastructure. Moreover, the traffic and bandwidth of each port managements setting between the running network protocol
and whole systems can monitor and manage. In this paper, the and the network function device.
OSPF, Ether channel and bandwidth monitoring system are This paper has three network layer models such Core,
used in real time simulations. All of systems are used the Cisco Distribution and Access layer for large business into a two
devices, Linux and windows OS and line aggregations. Line layer network model (Core/distribution and access layer) for
aggregation means line compositions. One switch port can use small business. Indeed, the core switches will distribute via
100 Mbps/ 1Gbps. On the other hand, if the port is 1Gbps, the the voice gateways and configured to automatically route calls
four ports are used that it may be 4Gbps. Moreover, not only from a voice gateway to other systems. The technology of
line combination, but also link redundancy. In this paper, the VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) has changed the our
Gns3 simulation is mainly emulated in the virtual environment life’s work and collaborate. Furthermore, a redundant design
with VMware. GNS3 (Graphical Network simulator) allows is examined specifically for the large business enterprise
simulation of complex network structure and the outside world. network for increased reliability and technological evolution.
It can interoperate and communication together with VMWare This paper has also implemented the EtherChannel
workstation, Virtual Machine and Esxi to imitate various OS in technology. EtherChannel is a ports and link aggregation
a virtual community such as Linux, Windows OS and Cisco technologies, advanced by Cisco that it is supplied
IOS. GNS3takes this a step further by providing a graphical fault-tolerant highest data speed links between Switches,
environment. Routers, and Servers. EtheChannel technology allows
multiple physical Ethernet links to join into one logical
Key words : ADSL; OSPF; PSTN; PBX; VOIP, WiMax, channel.
GNS3, ESXi
2. LITERATURE REVIEW
1. INTRODUCTION
The previous telephone network system has been taken over
The network infrastructure of the PSTN is selected the outside from by soft switch or digital switching like VoIP services
or locally by the exchange. Exchange of PSTN uses circuit because of Internet progressing. The customer should have the
switching. The exchange will select an outside (trunk) or local knowledge of networking and telephone system. VoIP lab
call until they spanned all over the world coverage via copper intends for adjustable configuration to grant the implantation
cables, microwaves, optical fiber cables and satellite for many applications. [1] The advantage of Cisco devices of
communication. PSTN network is a very old network and a VoIP lab qualifies the student's knowledge to obtain a
cause the many errors [2]. Copper cable of PSTN network has reliable system. The more performance network is provided
limitation and many of cable is used for each user. So, the Open Shortest Path First and Multi-Protocol Label Switching

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(MPLS) to obtain Quality of Service and security of the LAN is configured with a default gateway IP address. IP traffic
application of VoIP system. There are three OSPF areas that without relying on the availability of any single router is routed
they are one backbone and two standard areas. In this system, by HSRP. It enables a set of routers to operate with the
the proxy server is located to operate proxy as I-CSCF, appearance of a single virtual router or the default gateway to
S-CSCF, P-CSCF. [2] Moreover, the performance of VoIP is the nodes via a Local Area Network (LAN). If HSRP is
considered bandwidth, packet end to end delay, jitter and configured on a segment of the network, it will support
packet deliver. Traffic Engineering should be considered the physical address (MAC) and logical Address IP that it is
Qos, Speed of VoIP, MPLS and redundancy. [3] Cisco routing distributed among a group of networks or routers. Physical
and Asterisk base implementation of Public Branch Address and logical address of a virtual router is allowed two
Exchanged (PBX).[4] The future work will routing more HSRP configuration routers to use MAC address. The
information protocol such as OSPF, RIP, EIGRP, VPN virtual routers are configured to provide round robin or
tunnels, IP-Phone and Multiple network MPLS. [5] alternate to each other, such as active and standby. One of the
Soft-switch or VoIP communication system has simplified, routers is choice to be the active router and the other router is
openness and flexibility that it is also provided the devices on standby router because one router of the group is failed that
the market such as Cisco IP phone, another IP Phone, media while another router is suddenly operated within 2 Sec. This
gateway to reduce the cost of the system greatly. [7] The paper has discovered the problems that they are VOIP IP phone
transmission and receiving technology of voice and data via number assign problems, OSPF (Open Shortest Path Fast)
the Internet have been operated to assess the performance of routing Problem, Spanning Tree Protocol problem and Voice
VoIP between different networks. Simulation modeling and called connection problems via different networks. The OSPF
lab experiment are considered very important to use the network diagram is shown in figure 1.
difference or multipoint network.[8] The VoIP network
obtains the services a router that combined the network cloud
services, by the internet to the network. When the secure
network with VoIP, the firewall system is used that it is
connected to the server. In fact, the network will increase
speed, throughput, data transfer, delay, packet transfer.
When the author expands VoIP calls into the WAN (Wide
Area Network) and MAN (Metropolitan Area Network)
space, the author should also regard the difference between Figure 1: The OSPF Network Diagram with bandwidth
VoIP calls that come from other Cisco Unified CME nodes.
The authors WAN (Wide Area Network) and MAN The purpose of this paper is to solve the impact of Voice Over
(Metropolitan Area Network) network versus VoIP calls that Internet Protocol (VOIP). And then, the background
are from VoIP Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) knowledge on VOIP service will be provided. This problem
gateways or even from other independent external/wholesale has important things that they will be matched mac-address
VoIP carrier networks. This Cisco 8211CME (Call Manger and ephone number assign.
Express and Cisco 3825 ISR (Integrated Service Router)
router can link separate VoIP networks together and The goal of this thesis is to create within VoIP systems and
participate into the VoIP network using IP (Internet Protocol) Cisco 2811 CME or Cisco 3825 ISR router is the network
to IP (Internet Protocol) gateways.[9] This arrangement may infrastructures a new, efficient model for providing reliable
be desirable if the VoIP network wants to communicate VoIP with scalability, security and QoS considerations. To
international and long-distance phone service directly from a accomplish the goal, it is necessary to: Firstly Problem, STP is
carrier-class VoIP service provider and have this linked at the conflicted between switch upon the network infrastructure in
VoIP level to private business or enterprise VoIP network. the network switch or bridge.[10] The requirement of the
Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) proceeds because switches in
3. THEORETICAL CONSIDERATION local area networks (LANs) are often interconnected using
redundant links to improve resilience should one connection
In designing of VoIP, the main requirement is to have a system fail. However, this connection configuration creates switching
which call the IP-phone from every phone via the network loop resulting in broadcast radiation and forwarding
structure. These systems mainly need for more bandwidth and information base instability. [11] If redundant links are used to
efficient connectivity. This is also needed to know cable connect switches, then switching loops need to be avoided.
management system and IP addressing problem in the VoIP The second problem is routing and switching that it is decided
system. And then also know how to go the packet, and frame the data to warranty reach the real destination address. Third
structure between router and switches. This paper is Problem, this problem has important things that they will be
significance for data redundancy and line aggregation (increase matched mac-address and Ephone number assign. Fourth
bandwidth) of VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol). The data Problem is Voice Called Connection Problems via Difference
redundancy is also called HSRP (Host Standby Routing Networks and line aggregation and data redundancy.
Protocols). HSRP is the standard of Cisco of supporting the Fast EtherChannel grants multiple physical fast Ethernet links
path of high data speed network availability. This is supported to associate into one logical link channel. In the channel, the
first hop redundancy for Internet Protocol (IP) host. IEEE 802 traffic load sharing is permitted the redundancy that one or
more links in the channel breakdown. Interconnect LAN,

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routers, servers and workstation can use fast Etherchannel via phone network system is used same way as 91… network.
UTP or fiber cable. The concept of load balancing and Even though, the different VLAN is used such as Vlan 30 and
redundancy use the Etherchannel technique. There are three Vlan40 is used.
protocols in Etherchannel. They are PAgP (Cisco propriety),
LACP (IEEE standard 802.3d) and Load balancing. The
mainly important issue are following to use Etherchannel:
1. All ports are same duplex
2. All ports are same speed
3. All ports are same native VLAN
4. All ports are same access port or trunk port

Figure 2: Etherchannel on Cisco Switches

Table 1: Recommendation Protocol Mode in LACP

Figure 3: The network infrastructure of VoIP in GNS3

The Cisco ISR routers are used for call manager express of
The difference network phone call system is carefully VoIP to communicate voice and data packet. It is advanced to
controlled to each difference network infrastructure because secure the Voice, Data, video services. Cisco ISR also
this issue is very important to call VoIP voice via different supported the network agility, intelligence and performance
networks. The solution of the VoIP voice calls via difference and embedded the security processing, high memory capacity
network command. and high density interface. It can accept the telephony
services. However, the IP-phone Mac address and IP address
are matched. This problem is the challenge of this system.
The Cisco can also separate sub interface LAN with one LAN
Cable. However, the author has not used this method because
the telephone service and sub interface LAN may complex
and delay the systems. So that, the authors design the
4. DESIGN CONSIDERATION
telephony service commands. Another device is used two L3
Router have two ports that it is LAN port and the WAN port. Switch that it is Cisco C3560 -24 catalyst switch. Cisco
LAN port is used for Router, Local Area connection that it is C3560 24 Catalyst Switch has 24 ports and can separate
also called internal connection. WAN port is connected to the VLAN (Virtual LAN) or sub LAN because the L3 switch
outside world that it is an Internet connection or other operate not only switch options but also router options. L3
difference network. In this router, the sub interface LAN Switch router options are better than router option because
function is used the sub VLAN, Truck and DHCP function. the latency of l3 switch is faster than the latency of routers.
DHCP means that Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol that Its’ service includes IEEE 802.3af and PoE (Power on
it uses auto IP assigned to the switch and IP Phone. And then Ethernet). The deployment of Cisco L3 switch is used the
it is also configured to match IP address and MAC address new feature such as wireless access, video surveillance
that it is also called physical address and logical address. measuring and IP telephony at the enterprise network.
Figure 3 shows the flow of the implementation of a CME Moreover, the L3 base IP base software that it can configure
Router network of the difference VoIP system techniques the IP assigned and DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration
used for the whole VoIP system. In this network model Protocols) services. In fact, VLAN 10, 20 and 30 services are
system, three c7200 router for OSPF routing, Four L3 switch interoperated in Cisco 3560 Catalyst Switch. Cisco WS
for HSRP and two main telephone network group. Three C2960 24 port catalyst switch is used in the infrastructure. It
group number systems are used in this paper such as 71.. , is intended for the VLAN trunk, access option and
91… and 09666…… In 91… network, the voice router ether-channel or Line aggregation. Cisco C2960 Switch is L2
(CME) is used to call the phone call and L3 switch is used for switch. So that, it could not operate router functions like IP
VLAN 10 and 20 (Ip 192.168.10.0/24 and 192.168.20.0/24). assigned and DHCP function. The other is used Multilab
In addition, the ether channel and spanning tree mode are used software and Cisco IP Communicator. Multilab software and
to improve bandwidth and redundancy. The system of 09666 Cisco IP communicator installed in the Window OS such as

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Window 7 and Window 10 system. The multilab software in the second box because the SSH port service is used Port
operates multi IP telephone system and multi assign 22. When the first time connect to the Cisco routers or
mac-address of the IP phone. In fact, the various IP phone can switches, it will prompt the user and password authentication
communicate as same operating system. The author is a to accept SSH server key. Telnet is also operated like SSH.
specific call system for difference network via HSRP and However, Telnet Port is 23. Bandwidth and Traffic
OSPF network infrastructure. And then, It provides the Monitoring system is used that it is a Cacti monitoring
multiple calls per directory number (DN) and hold, transfer system. It is a free (open-source), graphic tool and web-base
and call conference option. The future design of VoIP will monitoring designed application that it is data logging tool
support camera or video option. So that, the next generation RRDtool. Cacti displays and predetermine the time interval
of IP phone can communication the video call system to each and graph the resulting data that it is speed, the CPU
other. In this design, the GNS3 simulator is used commonly condition of network devices, bandwidth utilization, jitter.
that it can operate outside world and VM simulator. But, It Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is used for
has many requirements to use such as CPU, RAM and Hard network traffic monitoring by polling the Cisco routers or
disc capacity. Another more, monitoring system is used in Cisco switches. The open source OS that they are REDHAT,
this system like Cacti monitoring system to get the traffic of CentOS, Fedora Linux can install the Cacti. However,
each interface. APache (Web Service), MySQL (Database server), PHP
(script module for graph), SNMP and RRD tool (bandwidth,
speed and CPU)[12].
5. METHODOLOGY The data are analyzed once all the data have been gathered
Two L3 Switches, two L2 Switches and six VoIP IP-phone. and the algorithms used have been successfully applied
Cisco router C3825 ISR is used in this system due to VoIP under the correct experiment set-up. After the said phase,
services because other routers (not ISR or CME) do not the data retrieved during the experimentation will be
support the Voice services. Cisco devices are used in this compared to Data or packet going to each equipment. Other
infrastructure because they are secure and high performance important information such as IP phone call to each other,
of the network backbone system. All of Cisco devices are packet distribution system to each phone number group and
operated Cisco IOS software that they lead network software, data flow will be gathered. For this, the experimental
delivering integration of technologies innovation for business parameters such as phone calling system and line
and enterprise network infrastructure. The SOHO network to redundancy facility, data communication, DNS server and
core network system is leveraged the Cisco IOS widely. The system reliability will be tested. The condition of the speed
CLI (Command Line Interface) differs from other network and bandwidth are used in the Cacti Monitoring system. The
operation systems. traffic and bandwidth analyzed to use the Cacti monitoring
system. The test result manages and monitoring call traffic
bandwidth, switch to switch ether-channel line condition
monthly. In this paper, the Gns3 simulation is mainly
emulated in the virtual environment with VMware. GNS3
(Graphical Network simulator) allows simulation of
complex network structure and the outside world. It can
operate and communication together with VMWare
workstation, Virtual Machine and Esxi to imitate various
OS in a virtual community such as Linux, Windows OS and
Cisco IOS. GNS3takes this a step further by providing a
graphical environment

6. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

The VoIP phone call in same network is shown in figure 5.

The system of network infrastructure is misled by various
Figure 4: Putty Cisco Configuration Software problem to communicate with each other in GNS3. The
interoperate of GNS3 and VMware with cacti and window
The Putty Cisco configuration software as shown in Figure 4. OS is very difficult to handle to each other. However, the
If the author wants to configure the Cisco devices, the Putty Cisco router and switch was run as like as real devices that
software should use. PuTTy is a compatible terminal for they are used heavily CPU used and RAM high duty. At this
Windows OS that it is the most popular SSH client at the same time, the author uses the HSRP system to process the
open source program. It can support SSH (Secure Socket redundancy. In fact, the STP (spanning tree) problem is a
Shell), telnet and supports authentications too. Its’ terminal is crucial factor that this problem can solve STP priority
same GUI or CLI of Cisco internal IOS system. The Putty method. And then Active1 and Active 2 switch are a
software open and connect with computer and Cisco routers complexity problem to call same network or different phone
and switch via USB (Universal Serial Bus). And then, the call system.
SSH radio box is selected and the port 22 automatics appear
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Figure 9: OSPF Network Ports monitoring

Figure 5: Phone Call in Same Network

Figure 6: Phone Call in Different Network

Figure 10: HSRP Network Ports monitoring

Figure 7: Phone Call in Different Network by using Cisco

IP Communicator

The successfully Cacti monitoring system is shown in figure Figure 11: VoIP-1 Router Network Ports monitoring
8.

Figure 12: VoIP-2 Router Network Ports monitoring

In Figure 10, there are four L3 switches that they are operated
Active and standby system. In figure 11 of VoIP- Router
Network monitoring system, One CME router and two L3
Figure 8: Cisco Device up a situation in Cacti Monitor switch which is used for Ether-Channel system. As the same
ways, VoIP-2 router network ports monitoring system in
If the Cisco router and switch devices want to be up figure 12. VoIP-1 is more used bandwidth than VoIP-2
situation, the author should operate the time.zone because the VoIP-1 is used for more calling operation.
synchronous and snmpwalk that it is used for to know each VoIP-2 is less.
other such as ports and CPU usage. The three routers are
used to monitor as name OSPF in figure 9.

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