| Integrating IP Telephony In the Enterprise - 2 DAYS of intense hands-on technical training
Course Description
This two-day hands-on course was designed to provide you with a "how to" guide on IP Telephony implementation. You've read the hype, seen the web seminar, and heard the vendors' sales pitches - now get down to the details of how to deploy an IP telephony solution that fits within your infrastructure and provides the services you need.
The key to success in IP Telephony is matching your requirements and infrastructure to the solutions available. Understanding the options enables you to mitigate your risk and keeps your deployment costs down by helping you prevent over-engineering. Telephony deployment impacts all aspects of a company, from your IT infrastructure to your business processes. Your users will need to be trained, new business rules will have to be defined as well as retooling your voice services team with the necessary skills.
Integrating IP Telephony was developed to provide you an unbiased presentation of all your options, in technical detail. With a detailed understanding of all your options, you can select the right vendor to successfully integrate your solution. Learn how to utilize existing legacy PBX and voice mail systems. Get hands-on configuration experience on SIP Softphones. Incorporate integrated messaging into your solution.
See the flaws,weaknesses, and security holes of IP Telephony and learn how to steer clear. With this two-day course you will put it all together and walk out experienced and ready to execute an IP Telephony deployment. 
Course Objectives
Practical, Immediately Useful Benefits of Attending:
- Deploy a test network that will allow you to effectively design and test your planned IP Telephony implementation before installation
- Evaluate existing voice services, gauge features vs. costs
- Install a SIP SoftPhone live in the classroom
- Understand IP Telephony compatibility with the PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network)
- Experience Presence Management and Integrated Messaging within a VoIP Architecture
- Dissect the components of IP Telephony, understand each part and its impact on your solution
- Integrate voicemail and email in your solution
- Calculate bandwidth requirements and ensure your infrastructure can provide the necessary
- QoS for quality calls
- Combine WiFi with VoIP for better mobility
- Understand the new features and capabilities IP Telephony promises
- Detail the risks and flaws of IP Telephony and learn your workarounds
- Configure & manage Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)
Implement security solutions
- Understand how an IP Telephony solution can interface with your legacy voice systems
- Learn how and why you don't have to "scrap" your entire IT infrastructure to make IP telephony work
- Evaluate service offerings and pricing from several leading providers in the industry
- Get detailed design and configuration guidelines on multiple deployment options
- Learn how to deploy a Greenfield Installation
Develop dial plans for local, long distance, and international calls
- Connect a SIP Proxy to an IP PBX
- Learn about public and private SIP Proxy Servers
- Mitigate deployment risks by learning how to utilize existing resources in your IP Telephony solution
- Gauge and plan for the impact IP Telephony will have on all aspects of your organization
- Learn about features and capabilities you can add with IP Telephony
Intended Audience
This technical training course was developed for IT managers, Technicians, Systems Administrators who need to understand Voice over IP, and anyone who will manage a converged network. It doesn't matter what vendor deployment you have - this course will provide you with the skills and knowledge you need to deploy IP Telephony solutions in your organization.
This course is a MUST for:
- Systems Analysts
- Project Managers
- Network Engineers
- Convergence Engineers
- IT Auditors
- Security Administrators
- Telecom Technicians
- Technical Sales/Marketing Personnel
- Consultants
Network Designers & Product Design Engineers
- Managers needing to understand Voice over IP
Systems
- Administrators who will manage a Converged Network

Course Outline
Section 1: Case Study #1 - Adding Locations & Work-at-Home Employees for a Construction Company.
This section examines the experiences of a small construction company as it expands operations. It will add a second office and support several work-at-home employees. You'll learn what they did, how, why, and what features have proven most beneficial.
- What was the existing infrastructure?
- What was the driving force?
- What options were considered?
- What was the plan?
- How was the plan implemented?
- What are the benefits?
- What obstacles had to be overcome?
- What were the lessons learned?
Section 2: Case Study #2 - Reducing Costs and Adding Features for a Midsized Manufacturing Company.
In this section, we will examine the experiences of a mid-sized manufacturing company with Midwestern headquarters and 11 regional offices. They transition their voice traffic from traditional dedicated circuits onto their Frame Relay network, reducing telecommunications costs by more than $20,000 per month.
- What was the existing infrastructure?
- What was the driving force?
- What options were considered?
- What was the plan?
- Vendor
- Technology
- Network requirements
- Cost
- How was the plan implemented?
- What are the benefits?
- What obstacles had to be overcome?
- What were the lessons learned?
Section 3: Case Study #3: Greenfield Installation for a Healthcare Provider.
Here you will learn from the experiences of a healthcare provider with locations in 4 states. The construction of a new headquarters prompted the company to explore alternatives to its old systems. Learn about the decision to deploy a converged network in the new facility, and the impact it had on the remote locations.
- What was the existing infrastructure?
- What was the driving force?
- What options were considered?
- What was the plan?
- Vendor
- Technology
- Network requirements
- Cost
- How was the plan implemented?
- What are the benefits?
- What obstacles had to be overcome?
- What were the lessons learned?
Chapter 4: Network Access Security
In this chapter you will review Network Access including Firewalls and Packet filters and review configurations of these services with VoIP. The emphasis in this section will be on how Network Access security impacts QoS in VoIP and what your trade-offs are with regard to service and performance against security.
- End User Device
- Soft Phone
- Xten Networks X-Lite
- Pingtel Instant Xpressa
- SJ Labs SJphone
- USB handsets
- Hard Phone
- Grandstream
- Polycom
- Swissvoice
- SipTone II
- Analog Telephone Adapter
- Cisco ATA-186
- Sipura SPA-2000
- Motorola VT1000
- Simple Traversal of UDP Through NATs (STUN)
- Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)
- SIP Proxy Server
- Public Servers
- Private Servers
- Extracting Call Detail Records (CDR)
- Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN)
- Foreign eXchange Office (FXO)
- FXS-FXO converter
- VoIP PBX
- FXO PCI card
- IPKall
- Writing a Dial-Plan
- Local
- Long Distance
- International
- Testing Bandwidth and Quality of Service (QoS)
- Minimum Bandwidth
- Packet Size
- Prioritization
- Connecting SIP Proxy to PBX
Chapter 5: Section 5: Features, Benefits, & Capabilities
In this section, we revisit the significant features and benefits a VoIP implementation can provide. You'll see how effortless Moves, Adds, & Changes (MACs) are with IP Telephony. You'll also experience Presence Management and Integrated Messaging. Also, we'll combine WiFi with VoIP for mobility and take a look at dual-mode phones.
- Control - Moves, Adds, & Changes
- Mobility - Road Warriors
- WiFi
- Hotspots
- Dual-Mode Phones
- Security
- Presence Management
- Integrated Messaging
- Voicemail
- Instant Messaging
- ENUM (RFC 2916)
- Return on Investment
- Adding Video
Section 6: Risks
A new technology always brings, along with the new features and capabilities, new risks. Understanding the risks is the first step to mitigating them. This section clearly describes the changes in thinking required when operating a converged network. This will give you the information you need to reduce or eliminate as much of the risk as possible.
- Reliability
- SoftPhone
- HardPhone
- IP PBX
- Data Network
- Power
- Emergency Services (911)
- Information Services (411)
- Voice Quality
- Network Congestion
- Packet Delay
- Packet Loss
- Compression
- Security
- Shared Network
- Denial of Service Attacks (DoS)
Section 7: Selecting a HW Vendor
An introduction to the top IP Telephony hardware vendors, and useful information for selecting a vendor.
- Cisco
- Nortel
- Avaya
- AltiGen
- Shoreline Communications
- Vertical Networks
- Others
Section 8: Selecting a Service Provider
For many small businesses and most mid-sized companies, running your own SIP Proxy servers makes sense. However, some small organizations and branch offices of larger companies may want to outsource their voice services to a VoIP Service Provider. In this section, you'll evaluate service offerings and pricing from several leading providers.
- Vonage
- Broadvoice
- Free World Dialup
- AT&T
- USA Datanet
- Packet 8
- Net2Phone
- Others

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