Voice Vlan Commands; Commands In This Chapter - Dell PowerEdge M420 Reference Manual

Voice VLAN Commands

The Voice VLAN feature enables switch ports to carry voice traffic with
defined priority so as to enable separation of voice and data traffic coming
onto the port. Using Voice VLAN ensures that sound quality of an IP phone is
safeguarded from deterioration when the data traffic on the port is high.
The switch can be configured to support voice VLAN on a port connecting to
the VoIP phone. When a VLAN is associated with the voice VLAN port, then
the VLAN ID information is passed onto the VoIP phone using the LLDP-
MED mechanism. The voice data coming from the VoIP phone is tagged with
the exchanged VLAN ID; thus, regular data arriving on the switch is given the
default PVID of the port, and the voice traffic is received on a predefined
VLAN. The two types of traffic are therefore segregated so that better service
can be provided to the voice traffic.
When a dot1p priority is associated with the voice VLAN port instead of
VLAN ID, then the priority information is passed onto the VoIP phone using
the LLDP-MED mechanism. Thus, the voice data coming from the VoIP
phone is tagged with VLAN 0 and with the exchanged priority. Regular data
arriving on the switch is given the default priority of the port (default 0), and
the voice traffic is received with higher priority, thus segregating both the
traffic to provide better service to the voice traffic.
The switch can be configured to override the data traffic CoS. This feature
enables overriding the 802.1P priority of the data traffic packets arriving at
the port enabled for voice VLAN. Thus, a rogue client that is also connected
to the voice VLAN port does not deteriorate the voice traffic.

Commands in this Chapter

This chapter explains the following commands:
voice vlan
voice vlan (Interface)
voice vlan data priority
show voice vlan
Voice VLAN Commands
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