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Voice over IP: Hands-On

 
Course: 461   Type: Hands-On Training   Duration: 4 Days
 
 

You Will Learn How To

  • Obtain the maximum benefit from Voice over IP (VoIP) and voice/video/data integration
  • Identify the costs, benefits and challenges of VoIP in multivendor networks
  • Interpret H.323, SIP and other industry standards for VoIP
  • Configure Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) IP phones, software phones and SIP IP PBX
  • Engineer high Quality-of-Service VoIP networks
  • Design networks to carry mixed voice, video and data traffic

Course Benefits

Voice over IP reduces your telephony costs and provides unique opportunities for integrating voice, video and data. In this course, you identify challenges and benefits of VoIP integration. You gain the knowledge to use a data packet network to provide wide area voice communications. You learn how to ensure Quality of Service for VoIP traffic, take advantage of VoIP for new and innovative applications, and configure and operate SIP and H.323 for VoIP.

Who Should Attend

Anyone interested in migrating voice and video conferencing traffic to new or existing data networks. A basic understanding of either TCP/IP internetworking or telephony concepts is assumed.

Hands-On Training

Exercises provide you with practical experience in key aspects of Voice over IP technology and include:
  • Configuring IP softphones with voice, video and messaging
  • Conferencing with H.323 and SIP protocols
  • Measuring the effect of codecs on network bandwidth consumption
  • Configuring IP desk phones
  • Calculating the degradation in voice quality due to packet loss, delay and jitter
  • Configuring analog phones with SIP analog telephone adapters (gateways) and SIP IP PBX
  • Engineering a network to carry VoIP using Erlang charts

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Upcoming Dates

Jan 13 - 16, 2009
 Washington, DC (Reston, VA)
Jan 20 - 23, 2009
 Ottawa
Apr 7 - 10, 2009
 Washington, DC (Rockville, MD)
Apr 28 - May 1, 2009
 Washington, DC (Alexandria, VA)
May 19 - 22, 2009
 New York
May 26 - 29, 2009
 Toronto
Jul 28 - 31, 2009
 Ottawa

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Voice over IP: Hands-On

 
Course: 461   Type: Hands-On Training   Duration: 4 Days
 
 
Course 461 Content
 

Introduction to VoIP

Traditional voice and data networks

  • The Public Switched Telephone Network
  • Packet-switched data networks
  • OSI and IETF reference models

Realizing the benefits of VoIP

  • Using data networks to transmit voice and video traffic
  • Taking advantage of new communications features available with SIP and H.323

Applying VoIP Fundamentals

Defining multimedia conferences

  • Voice, video, data and mixed conversions
  • Key VoIP hardware and software components
  • Gateways and gatekeepers
  • Signaling & data protocols

Deploying H.323 or SIP within your organization

  • SIP vs. H.323
  • Configuring and testing SIP IP PBX and IP phones
  • Setting up voice and video conferencing
  • Creating ring groups for a call center
  • Tuning network quality-of-service for user satisfaction

Analyzing H.323 and SIP calls

  • Capturing SIP and H.323 signaling exchanges
  • Implementing and analyzing silence suppression
  • In-depth analysis of SIP signaling messages
  • Registering with a gatekeeper or proxy
  • RTCP messages

Leverage SIP for Seamless Communication

Building the IP infrastructure

  • Packetizing voice for carriage through the IP network with RTP
  • Employing reliable signaling with TCP
  • Maintaining real-time voice performance with RTP

Analyzing VoIP signaling

  • Distinguishing between SIP, H.323, H.225 and H.245
  • Applying SDP to SIP packets
  • Call setup and teardown

Addressing within VoIP networks

  • Mapping phone numbers to IP addresses
  • Gatekeepers, proxies, locations and call servers

Measuring voice quality

  • Mean opinion scores (MOS)
  • Detecting flaws in transmitted voice
  • Grade of service and capacity planning

Voice Quality Engineering

Classifying factors that affect voice quality

  • Encoding voice effectively
  • Comparing codecs
  • Assessing the effects of delay and loss on quality

Selecting the best codec

  • G.711, G.722, G.723, G.726, G.729
  • Testing for differences in performance
  • Adaptive techniques
  • Voice companding: µ-law, A-law

Open and multivendor systems

  • Anatomy of IP phones
  • Open source Asterisk IP PBX
  • Gateways to the PSTN legacy phone network

Capacity planning for voice over packet

  • Determining bandwidth needs
  • Comparing LAN and WAN performance
  • Assessing the impact on data networks

Designing Networks to Carry VoIP

Calculating bandwidth service requirements

  • Traffic engineering
  • Measuring sporadicity of signals
  • Sizing service loading for multisite operation
  • Designing VoIP service: case study

Minimizing delay and delay variation

  • Calculating queuing delays
  • Sizing link capacity needs and required trunk speeds
  • Calculating expected routing delays
  • Controlling admission in commercial services
  • Employing Random Early Discard (RED)
  • Designing for high availability

Delivering Quality on Real Networks

Exploiting the Internet with VoIP services

  • Making calls with IP phones over the Internet
  • Providing international voice services
  • Linking a call center to the Internet
  • Adding VoIP to an e-commerce Web site

Employing quality services on intranets

  • Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP)
  • Configuring IP precedence
  • Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
  • Observing the effects of data traffic and fair queuing on voice services
  • Mixing voice and data traffic effectively
 
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Voice over IP: Hands-On Tuition

 
Course: 461   Type: Hands-On Training   Duration: 4 Days
 
 

Course Tuition
$ 2,790 Standard Tuition
Tuition with a Savings Plan
$ 1,800 10-Day Pass
$ 1,670 Training Passport
$ 1,700 Premium-Pass
$ 2,200 Voucher 10-Pack
$ 2,515 Alumni Gold Discount
$ 2,484 Government Discount
 

 

Your Course Tuition Entitles You To...

  • Class participation
  • Team workshops
  • Use of in-class hands-on equipment
  • Comprehensive course materials
  • Morning and afternoon refreshments
  • Course Completion Certificate awarding Continuing Education Units
  • FREE participation in Professional Certification
  • FREE participation in College Credit programs (including related exams)
  
 

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  • 3 courses in 12 months
  • As little as $1,670 per course
  • Savings as much as 40%
  • Only $5,000
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  • 4 courses in 24 months
  • As little as $1,700 per course
  • Save as much as 45%
10-Day Pass
  • A NEW way to save on training
  • 10 days of training for one person
  • Save as much as $990 per course
  • Only $4,500
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  • Save as much as $990 per course
  • Fully transferable
  • As low as $2,200 per course
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