CVOICE/QOS Mini Camp Training Class

CVOICE Outline

1. Introduction to Packet Voice Technologies

• Traditional telephony networks


• Packet voice networks


• IP data networks

2. Analog and Digital Voice Connections

• Basics of analog and digital voice


• Processes and standards of voice digitization, compression, and digital
  signaling


• Signaling methods


• ISDN voice interfaces


• Signaling between PBXs


• Common Channel Signaling (CCS) systems


• Internetworking of signaling systems


• Fax and modem usage over a VoIP network

3. Configuring Voice Interfaces

• Analog and digital voice interfaces


• Analog and digital voice ports for optimal voice quality

4. Voice Dial Peers

• Call flows


• Inbound and outbound dial peers


• Application of voice dial peers


• Special purpose connections

5. Introduction to Voice over IP

• Fundamentals of VoIP


• Differences and similarities between VoIP and Voice over other
  technologies, such as Frame Relay or ATM


• Roles of Gateways in integrating VoIP with the traditional voice
  technologies found in enterprise and service provider networks


• VoIP protocol stack


• Applied headers


• Use of Real-Time Transport Protocol compressed (cRTP)


• Bandwidth requirements for various codecs and data links


• Methods to reduce bandwidth consumption


• Implications of implementing security measures in VoIP networks

6. Voice over IP Signaling and Call Control

• Types of various signaling


• Call control models


• Call control services


• Functional components of H.323


• Functional components of SIP


• Functional components of MGCP


• H.323, SIP, and MGCP call control models

7. Improving and Maintaining Voice Quality

• Voice Quality Measurement including codec choice, which affects quality


• Transporting real-time voice in a non-real-time IP internetwork


• Quality of Service (QoS) functional areas and tools


• Campus networks


• WAN


• Effect of network design on QoS


• Overcoming jitter


• Overcoming delay


• Call Admission Control tools


• Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP)


• Busy-hour bandwidth allocation for both voice and data traffic

8. Scalable Numbering and Applications

• Implementing a scalable numbering plan


• Cost-saving applications

QOS Outline

1. Introduction to IP QoS

• The Need for QoS


• Understanding QoS


• Implementing QoS

2. The Building Blocks of IP QoS

• Models for Implementing QoS


• The Differentiated Services Module


• IP QoS Mechanisms


• Case Study: QoS Mechanisms


• Case Study: The Life of a Packet

3. Introduction to Modular QoS CLI and AutoQoS

• Introducing Modular QoS CLI


• Introducing AutoQoS

4. Classification and Marking

• Classification and Marking Overview


• Case Study: Classification and Marking


• Using MQC for Classification


• Using MQC for Class-Based Marking


• Using NBAR for Classification


• Configuring QoS Pre-Classify


• Configuring QoS Policy Propagation Through BGP


• Configuring LAN Classification and Marking

5. Congestion Management

• Introduction to Queuing


• Queuing Implementations


• FIFO and WFQ


• CBWFQ and LLQ


• LAN Congestion Management

6. Congestion Avoidance

• Introduction to Congestion Avoidance


• Introduction to RED


• Configuring Class-Based Weighted RED


• Case Study: WRED Traffic Profiles


• Configuring Explicit Congestion Notification

7. Traffic Policing and Shaping

• Traffic Policing and Shaping Overview


• Configuring Class-Based Policing


• Configuring Class-Based Shaping


• Configuring Class-Based Shaping on Frame Relay Interfaces

8. Link Efficiency Mechanisms

• Link Efficiency Mechanisms Overview


• Class-Based Header Compression


• Link Fragmentation and Interleaving

9. QoS Best Practices

• Traffic Classification Best Practices


• Case Study: Deploying End-to-End QoS


• Selected Labs from the following list:

Network professionals interested in deploying state-of-the-art QoS techniques
to support multime