Beyond VoIP Protocols

Beyond VoIP Protocols

A final section on multimedia encoding and transport techniques such as multicast make this book an ideal reference for engineers seeking to build communications networks for the future. * Detailed and thorough reference on the theory of speech coding and voice quality and how that affects the services that can be provided. * Covers quality of service issues and suggests appropriate solutions * Discusses network dimensioning, the challenges and the benefits. * Demonstrates multimedia encoding and transport techniques This is THE "must have" book for all Engineers deploying VoIP in Carrier and Operator companies and Internet Service providers. The extensive coverage also makes this highly relevant for professional network engineers, designers and managers, decision makers and project managers overseeing VoIP implementations and market analysts and consultants.

In 1999-2000, VoIP (Voice-over-IP) telephony was one of the most successful buzzwords of the telecom bubble era. However, in 2001-2003, VoIP faced a very tough reality check. Now, manufacturers and service providers are drawing on what they have learnt from past experience in order to prepare to participate in the next major challenge faced by the telecommunications industry.
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.

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O. Hersent, NetCentrex, France; J.-P. Petit, France Telecom; D. Gurle, Reuters, France

Inhaltsangabe

Glossary.

List of Abbreviations.
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 CableLabs(r) PacketCable(TM) 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.