Demand Window Fields

This topic describes router-specific fields in the node, link, interface, demand, and tunnel tables as well as the Application Options windows.

Field	Description	File Format
VPN	Virtual Private Network	demand file, owner field

For a description of general details for demands, refer to the NorthStar Planner User Interface Guide. For more information about VPNs, see NorthStar Planner Virtual Private Networks Overview.

Table 1: Demand Type Parameter Generation

Field	Description	File Format
Guaranteed BW	Specifies that the demand should route over a Guaranteed Bandwidth (e.g., subpool) tunnel	GB,
Bi-Directional	If this checkbox is selected, the flow will be routed along the same route in both directions.	DUPLEX,
Policy Class	CoS Policy.	COS= policyname, where policyname is substituted by the CoS policy name
Routing Instance	If this field is selected, the flow must route only on interfaces of the given OSPF routing instance/process ID.	ROUTEINST=<nameorID>
Multicast	If this checkbox is selected, specify the destination IP in the adjacent select menu.	MCip-address, where ip-address is substituted by the destination IP address
PIM Mode	The following Protocol Independent Multicast modes can be specified: PIM-DM (dense mode) PIM-SM (sparse mode) Bidir-PIM SSM	pim-mode, where pim-mode is substituted by the multicast mode (e.g., PIM-DM)
ECMP	Specify that this demand can be load-balanced to Equal Cost Multiple Paths, by splitting the flow into this number of sub-flows.	ECMP= n, where n is substituted by an integer
Signaling Protocol	When selecting VoIP as the traffic type, you can select a signaling protocol (e.g., H.323, SIP)	VOIP= protocol, where protocol is the signaling protocol (e.g., H.323, SIP)
Codec	When selecting VoIP as the traffic type, this offers a wide range of codecs, such as 64K(G.711)	Codec= codec_bandwidth, (e.g., Codec=64K)