Do I need Traffic Shaping for VoIP when only the PBX is behind a pfSense instanc
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Hi,
I am not sure wether or not I need to set up Traffic Shaping for what I am doing, but I will go over my setup… We have a PBX installed at a datacentre, which sits behind a pfSense instance. The pfSense instance handles all of our NAT and IPSec VPN tunnels. We have currently around 6 VPN tunnels connected, and clients phones connect to the PBX over these VPN tunnels. Each client has its own PBX insance using 3CX's Multi Tennant.
I am not sure if I need to implement Traffic Shaping or not, as it stands the bandwidth is around 500Mbps down and 750Mbps up so we aren't short of bandwidth, but would traffic shaping still help prioritize VoIP traffic, even though there is not other traffic in and out of this pfSense instance?
I welcome your comments.
regards,
Jonathan.
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Hi,
I am not sure wether or not I need to set up Traffic Shaping for what I am doing, but I will go over my setup… We have a PBX installed at a datacentre, which sits behind a pfSense instance. The pfSense instance handles all of our NAT and IPSec VPN tunnels. We have currently around 6 VPN tunnels connected, and clients phones connect to the PBX over these VPN tunnels. Each client has its own PBX insance using 3CX's Multi Tennant.
I am not sure if I need to implement Traffic Shaping or not, as it stands the bandwidth is around 500Mbps down and 750Mbps up so we aren't short of bandwidth, but would traffic shaping still help prioritize VoIP traffic, even though there is not other traffic in and out of this pfSense instance?
I welcome your comments.
regards,
Jonathan.
Unless you are saturating your connection, QoS/traffic-shaping is virtually unneeded.
QoS can give you guarantees that if something were to saturate your connection, the VOIP (is that what PBX is?) will continue to see optimal latency and bandwidth.