For years, many different data networking protocols have existed, but now, data
communications has firmly found its home in the form of IP, the Internet Protocol.
Ever since telecommunications began, voice communications has rigidly stuck to a
classic circuit switched networking environment.
Over the years, many technologies have been used for the integration of voice and
data with some offering much better solutions than others, at least from a technical
perspective.
Our course looks at the subject of voice over IP, covering various methods of its
implementation and looking at many of the relevant standards. We also cover issues
that need to be considered when deploying voice over IP and discuss how these may be
dealt with.
In order to present the information in such a way that it is best understood, we make
significant use of live demonstration equipment to provide a real-life and tangible
perspective to the course. This course covers live demos of IP phones, IP PBX
systems, Hosted IP Systems, gateways, voice compression systems and SIP protocols. We
also make use of protocol analysis equipment to show what is actually happening in
the IP network.
