Backhaul End-to-end

 

End-to-End Introduction

    A high level overview of the topic and the briefing.

 

Quality of Service / Quality of Experience

    A brief overview of multimedia QoS and QoE to set the stage for a better understanding of the application example.

 

• QoS vs QoE
• Classes of Service (CoS)
• Three + 1 Models
  • Prioritization
  • Route Optimization
  • Resource Reservation
  • Hybrids
• Undersubscription, Oversubscription and Discard
• Multimedia Application Impact

 

Application Overview

Pat is a mobile multimedia user with an Android hand held device. Pat accesses multiple personal and work applications including traditional browser, cellular and packet voice, images and video. The flow of Pat’s application traffic across each of the four backhaul methods is contrasted and compared in this section. The following technical aspects and their impact on Quality of Service and Quality of Experience are considered:

• • Service Level Agreements
  • Class of Service
  • VLANs/VLAN IDs
  • Traffic Handling at Backhaul Ingress
  • Traffic Management under varying loads
  • Prioritization, Buffering and Discard
  • Quality of Service / Quality of Experience
• Terrestrial TDM/SONET/SDH Backhaul
• Wireless TDM/SONET/SDH Backhaul
• Wireless RF Native Ethernet Backhaul
• Wireless Optical native Ethernet Backhaul

 

End-to-End Review and Summary

    A review of the briefing topics and summary of the program.