Who Should Attend?
The course is intended to anyone who needs to broaden knowledge about VoIP technology. This 3-days long session gives deep understanding and practical knowledge of VoIP technology.
Course Scope
- VoIP Background.
- Why VoIP – benefits and problems,
- Circuit versus packet switching for real-time services,
- Voice services quality and measurement standards (MOS, etc.),
- Real-time services in ATM, Frame Relay and IP networks (RTP/RTCP),
- Voice compression (linear prediction, G.72x codecs) and packetization,
- VoIP signaling overview (call control, media negotiations, mobility management),
- VoIP standards evolution,
- H.32x standards overview,
- H.248 overview,
- SIP overview: history, standard evolution.
- H.323 fundamentals.
- H.323 protocol family overview,
- H.323 architecture; functional entities description,
- H.323 call stages,
- H.225 RAS (Registration, Admission, Status),
- H.225 CC (Call Controll),
- H.245 Control Protocol for Multimedia decription.
- SIP fundamentals.
- SIP main architecture,
- SIP components (servers and clients) and their functions: SIP user agents (AU client and server),
- SIP servers: proxy (statefull and stateless), redirect, registrar,
- SIP location servers,
- SIP gateways,
- SIP message structure,
- SIP requests and response codes,
- SIP supporting IETF protocols (SAP, SDP),
- SIP sessions: session setup, proxying and redirecting requests, address resolution, media negotiation via SDP,
- SIP security,
- General SIP message flow examples.
- Transport protocols in VoIP networks.
- IP4 vs. IP6,
- RTP & RTCP protocols,
- Secured media transport – SRTP protocol,
- Media streaming – RTSP protocol,
- Voice coding aspects.
- Basic information about speech; narrowband coding,
- Speech codecs; basic facts, speech compression,
- PCM, ADPCM, CELP codecs. Key differentiators for codecs used in VoIP.
- Quality of Service in VoIP
- Quality of voice and quality of service expectations,
- Media quality; key facts
- Speech QoS – sources of network impairments,
- QoS measure: MOS. PESQ model, E model
- QoS testing methods.
Course Objectives
To understand new VoIP technology, architectures used to offer services based on VoIP and problems coming from deploying of real-time service on packet network.
Pre-requisites
There are no prerequisites to attend the course, but basic knowledge about IP would be beneficial.
Training Structure
Four days training divided into logical sessions.
Methodology
Instructor led training.