# Bandwidth Management - Introduction

The Bandwidth Management feature in MiVoice Business tracks and manages bandwidth consumption by the VoIP media stream. This feature allows you to do the following for the voice data packets at predetermined bottleneck points in the network:

- Measure and report consumed and available bandwidth

- Establish maintenance alarms when bandwidth consumption exceeds configured threshold levels.

- Provide Call Admission Control, that is, the rejection of new calls through a specific bottleneck point when consumed bandwidth exceeds maximum configured levels.

Bandwidth management may be based on a need to:

- Limit the bandwidth used by voice to allow sufficient bandwidth for data based applications (such as banking transactions) that voice traffic must not degrade

- Define the limit at which the voice quality may suffer.

To configure Bandwidth Management, you need to look at your network and see where the bottlenecks are. Once you have this view, you model the network into groupings or zones; in essence, you put an overlay onto your network that defines zones for MiVoice Business systems, devices, sets, consoles, and so forth that need to be virtually co-located in the same zones to allow bandwidth to be measured.

Related Topics

- About Zones and ZAPs

- About Call Admission Control

- Configuration Data is Shared via SDS

- What Features are Supported?