Cisco Voice Over IP v6.0 (CVOICE)

Powerful 5-day Course

Course Description

CVOICE lays the foundation for gaining hand-on skills and significant understanding of packet telephony by presenting the technologies that are common for both Enterprise and Service Provider students. The course also teaches students how to use the available Cisco tools to find the information needed to accomplish their everyday tasks. Since no two networks are alike, this approach enables a student to apply the knowledge gained in this course to their specific needs.

We have enhanced this comprehensive Authorized Cisco course to introduce you to the latest Cisco Voice over IP (VoIP) technologies and give you the skills and techniques to optimize your Cisco hardware for real performance and savings.

Course Objectives

What you will learn:

• VoIP, components of a VoIP network, VoIP protocols, special requirements for VoIP calls, and Codecs
• Configure gateway interconnections to support VoIP and PSTN calls
• Basic signaling protocols used on voice gateways; configure a gateway to support calls using the various signaling protocols
• Define a dial plan, describing the purpose of each dial plan component, and implement a dial plan on a voice gateway
• Gatekeeper functions, protocols, and operation; implement an H.323 gatekeeper to provide dial plan resolution and call admission control
• Implement a Cisco Unified Border Element gateway to connect to an Internet Telephony Service Provider

Intended Audience

• Students completing the CCVP certification track
• Network engineers, architects, and support staff who:
• Maintain and configure voice and data network devices
• Are considering various methodologies to implement Voice over IP (VoIP)
• Require a fundamental understanding of the issues and solutions related to implementation
• Require a fundamental understanding of packet telephony technologies that are common for both enterprise and service provider applications

Prerequisites

• Working knowledge of fundamental terms and concepts of computer networking, including LANs, WANs, and IP switching and routing
• Basic internetworking skills taught in Interconnecting Cisco Network Devices2 (ICND2), or equivalent knowledge
• Ability to configure and operate Cisco routers and switches and to enable VLANs and DHCP
• Knowledge of traditional public switched telephone network (PSTN) operations and technologies

Course Outline

• Voice over IP (VoIP)
• Introducing VoIP
• Introducing Voice Gateways
• Specifying Requirements for VoIP Calls
• Understanding Codecs, Codec Complexity, and DSP Functionality
• Configuring Voice Ports
• Analog Voice Ports
• Understanding Gateway Dial Peers
• Digital Voice Ports
• QSIG
• Implementing VoIP Gateways
• Implementing H.323 Gateways
• Implementing MGCP Gateways
• Implementing SIP Gateways
• Implementing Dial Plans on Voice Gateways
• Understanding Dial Plans
• Implementing Numbering plans
• Configuring Digit Manipulation
• Configuring Path Selection
• Implementing Calling Privileges on Cisco IOS Gateways
• Implementing H.323 Gatekeepers
• Introducing Gatekeepers
• Configuring Basic Gatekeeper Functionality
• Implementing Gatekeeper-Based CAC
• Connecting to an ITSP
• Understanding Special Requirements for External VoIP Connections
• Implementing CUBEs

 

Course Labs

• Lab 1: Topology and Deployment
• Lab 2: Lab Familiarity
• Lab 3: Analog Voice Port Configuration
• Lab 4: Dial Plan Lab 1 - POTS Dial Peers
• Lab 5: Dial Plan Lab 2 - VoIP Dial Peers
• Lab 6: Digital Voice Port Configuration
• Lab 7: Configuring H.323 Gateways and Codec Parameters
• Lab 8: MGCP Gateways
• Lab 9: SIP Gateways
• Lab 10: Dial Plan Lab 3 - Implementing PSTN Dial Plans
• Lab 11: Dial Plan Lab 4 - Configuring Path Selection
• Lab 12: Classes of Restriction
• Lab 13: Single and Multizone Gatekeepers
• Lab 14: Call Admission Control
• Lab 15: Configuring Cisco Unified Border Element
• Lab 16: (Optional) Configuring AutoQoS