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
  Ø       Course objectives
  Ø       Course outline

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

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

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

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

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

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

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