Voice over IP (VoIP) Foundations ^TM - a One-day Overview Course

A foundation course emphasizing the latest Voice over IP business and technology issues, that are most relevant to your next Voice over IP project.

Course Description:
The intent of this course is to provide a solid introduction to Voice over IP. We will brief the student on the Voice over IP market, high points of the technology, variations on deployment types, and future trends. We cover the opportunities and challenges that the technology provides.

Audience:
This course is targeted at students who are just entering their first Voice over IP project. The topics are designed to provide a conversational knowledge on a wide range of Voice over IP related topics.
 

This DoceoTech course was authored by Michael Stanford.  Mr. Stanford presented the keynote address at the Voice on the Net conference in March 2005, on the topic Voice over Wi-Fi: Current State of Play. He is a VoIP strategist who has worked in executive positions in three companies that provide converged voice/data solutions, and he continues to drive the VoIP industry to new innovative solutions.
 

Course Outline:

v       Introduction and course overview
         Course objectives
         Course outline

v       VoIP Market Overview
         The Context: Telecom Convergence
         What is VoIP?
         Why now? Technical forces, market forces, and
                regulation
         Markets: Residential, Enterprise, Service Provider
         Global Standards, and business ecosystem
                 considerations
         Directories, billing, provisioning

 v       Basic Telephone Technology
         Signaling and Media in Analog telephony
         Signaling and Switching in Digital telephony
         Packet switching, packet protocols, and signaling
                protocols

v       Basic VoIP Technology
         Voice Encoding and Compression: G.711, ADPCM,
            CELP
         Media Transport
         Performance Implications: Delay, Real-Time Protocol
         Quality of Service and sound quality
         Signaling protocols: SIP.  H.323, MGCP/Megaco
         Management, security, admission, authorization, and
            encryption
         VoIP Telephones, Proxies, registrars, redirect servers,
            Media servers, Media gateways
         Examples of Generic end-to-end calls

v       Consumer VoIP Technology
         Basic home VoIP
         Residential broadband connection
         Voice over Wi-Fi in the home

v       Enterprise VoIP Technology
         VoIP phones: Soft, wired, Voice over Wi-Fi, Dual mode phones
         IP PBXs,  Media servers,  and Media gateways
         Voice over Wi-Fi for the enterprise
         WAN links (Voice over Frame Relay, Virtual Private Networks)

v       Carrier VoIP Technology
         Who are the providers?
         Softswitches, multiservice switches, gateways, and border devices
         IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS)
         How Voice over Wi-Fi fits

v       Beyond VoIP  - Rich Multimedia Collaboration
         Multimedia Telecom Technology
         Video, Presence, Instant Messaging, Push To Talk, Rich Media Collaboration