Wednesday, November 3, 2021

Stress Test New SD-WAN with multiple video meeting streams

Hello all-

After spending the past few hours searching through prev. discussions and google searches, see if there is a to stress test our SD-WAN locations.

1) We use Microsoft Teams as a collaboration platform and are heavy "video meeting" users

2) HR would like to conduct "in-person" training sessions for some of our staff using Microsoft Teams meeting (not Teams Live Event or Webinar function), but standard interactive meeting as there are needs for use of Breakout rooms. To promote "safe distancing", staff will be required to attend training from their desk locations instead of congregating in large conference rooms.

3) Our staff is not 100% back in the office so we do not have a great baseline of what traffic patterns/utilization looks like; we transitioned to SD-WAN and Microsoft Teams over COVID.

4) We would like to simulate multiple video/data streams to each of our offices to emulate simultaneous Teams meeting. We have QoS polices on our SD-WAN but would like to see if and when congestion starts occurring i.e. as we crank up the number of sessions, when do we see policies fails and/or network packet loss occurring. If there is an online paid service, we are willing to look into this simulation.

Looked at TREx tool https://trex-tgn.cisco.com/ along with testing setup video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_09jKCPatis , but seeing there are alternative methods and/or vendors that provide this as a one-time service.

TIA



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