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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 Paragon Planner User Interface Guide. For more information about VPNs, see Paragon 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)