This book offers a comprehensive overview of the issues to solve in order to deploy global revenue-generating effective "multimedia" services. Drawing on extensive research and practical deployment experience in VoIP, the authors provide essential advice for those seeking to design and implement a post-bubble VoIP network.
Beyond VoIP Protocols: Understanding Voice Technology and Networking Techniques for IP Telephony
- Introduces the basics of speech coding and voice quality
- Demonstrates how quality of service may be built into the
network and deals with dimensioning aspects, e.g. multipoint
communications and how to model call seizures.
- Explores the potential of multicast to turn an IP backbone
into an optimized broadcast medium
- Includes amply illustrated, state-of-the-art practical advice for
formulating a complete deployment strategy
A companion volume to "IP Telephony : Deploying VoIP Protocols", this book takes the reader a stage deeper into how to prepare the network and exploit VoIP technology to its full potential
1 Introduction.
1.1 The rebirth of VoIP.
1.2 Why beyond VoIP protocols?
1.3 Scope of this book.
1.4 Intended audience.
1.5 Conclusion.
1.6 References.
2 Introduction to Speech-coding Techniques.
2.1 A primer on digital signal processing.
2.2 The basic tools of digital signal processing.
2.3 Overview of speech signals.
2.4 Advanced voice coder algorithms.
2.5 Waveform coders. ADPCM ITU-T G.726.
2.6 Hybrids and analysis by synthesis (ABS) speech coders.
2.7 Codebook-excited linear predictive (CELP) coders.
2.8 Quality of speech coders.
2.9 Conclusion on speech-coding techniques and their near
future.
2.10 References.
2.11 Annexes.
3 Voice Quality.
3.1 Introduction.
3.2 Reference VoIP media path.
3.3 Echo in a telephone network.
3.4 Delay.
3.5 Acceptability of a phone call with echo and delay.
3.6 Conclusion.
3.7 Standards.
4 Quality of Service.
4.1 Introduction: What is QoS?
4.2 Describing a data stream.
4.3 Queuing techniques for QoS.
4.4 Signaling QoS requirements.
4.5 The CableLabsฎ PacketCableTM quality-of-service
specification: DQoS.
4.6 Improving QoS in the best effort class.
4.7 Issues with slow links.
4.8 Conclusion.
4.9 References.
4.10 Packet size annex.
5 Network Dimensioning.
5.1 Simple compressed voice flow model.
5.2 Building a network dedicated to IP telephony.
5.3 Merging data communications and voice communications
on one common IP backbone.
5.4 Multipoint communications.
5.5 Modeling call seizures.
5.6 Conclusion.
5.7 References.
6 IP Multicast Routing.
6.1 Introduction .
6.2 When to use multicast routing.
6.3 The multicast framework.
6.4 Controling scope in multicast applications.
6.5 Building the multicast delivery tree.
6.6 Multicast-routing protocols.
6.7 The mBone.
6.8 MULTICAST issues on non-broadcast media.
6.9 Conclusion.
6.10 References .
Index.