We are at the end of the road here and I'm using this site as a last resort. We had a site complaining that they would receive static on the line when making calls external to the network. They also mentioned this happened randomly but when it does happen, you can only hear maybe every 3rd word and the call is rendered useless. Berbee confirmed that it wasn't a configuration or a hardware issue. We are using a Cisco 1760 Router with a combination of Cisco 7910 and 7912 phones at this site.
I built an exact replica of the router (hardware wise) but upgraded the IOS to a crypto image of 12.4. The old router was on a basic IP voice image of 12.2. We went out this morning to do extensive testing. I had 2 guys making calls while I was monitoring the router. As we made calls, Serial1/0:23 came up first, then progressively the interfaces came up counting down from :23 down to about :13 or :12. After that, the calls became static'd and impossible. In the meanwhile, users were taking calls and making calls internally to the network and those calls (1 or 2 calls) appeared to bring up Serial1/0:0 and :1. After that, calls would no longer work.
I checked the router and I was getting this message:
14:04:43: %IVR-3-LOW_CPU_RESOURCE: IVR: System experiencing high cpu utilization (96/100).
Call (callID=267) is rejected.
14:04:45: %IVR-3-LOW_CPU_RESOURCE: IVR: System experiencing high cpu utilization (96/100).
Call (callID=268) is rejected.
14:05:08: %IVR-3-LOW_CPU_RESOURCE: IVR: System experiencing high cpu utilization (96/100).
Call (callID=269) is rejected.
If you're like me, you'd jump quickly to say ok well, the 1760 just can't handle this many PRIs. However, we have a 1760 at another site with the same amount of PVDM cards (2) and the same amount of DSP resources. This other site has maxxed out their PRIs on several occasions and they have never experienced static. I cannot find any major configuration differences between the other site and this one.
Any ideas? Anything I can check? I can access the working site and the static'd site both remotely so please let me know if you have any ideas.