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Cisco Voice Over IP (CVOICE) v8.0 5 days Lecture/lab
Course description
In this course, you'll gain an understanding of converged voice and data networks and the challenges faced by various network technologies. Addressing design, planning, and deployment practices, you will gain comprehensive hands-on experience configuring and deploying VoIP networks.

In addition to the knowledge and skills required to integrate gateways into an enterprise VoIP network, you'll learn how to build and test a sophisticated IP telephony network that you can use as a template for a real deployment.

The course includes a comprehensive full day on Quality of Service (QoS), in which you'll learn to configure QOS to support real-time traffic.

Learning objectives
After you complete this course, you will be able to:
  • Define the components, protocols, and requirements of a VoIP network
  • Configure gateway interconnections to support VoIP and PSTN calls
  • Describe basic signaling protocols used on voice gateways
  • Configure a gateway using different call control and signaling protocols
  • Define and implement a dial plan on a voice gateway
  • Implement a Cisco Unified Border Element (CUBE) gateway to connect to an Internet Telephony Service Provider
  • Investigate the use of traditional telephony connections, such as FXS, FXO, E&M, T1 and E1 (CAS and PRI)
  • Configure and troubleshoot Cisco's new ISR 2811 routers with a DSP configuration (PVDM2-32 cards)
  • Configure H.323 gateways and gatekeepers
  • Configure SIP and MGCP
  • Experience G.711, G.723, and G.729 voice coding schemes
  • Configure Call Admission Control
  • Configure Caller ID
  • Experience real-world connections to PBXs, Key Telephone Systems, and the PSTN
  • Connect to a public dial plan network using different call control protocols
Who should attend
CVOICE is designed for Cisco customers and Channel Partners who are working toward CCVP certification, or who need to achieve a fundamental understanding of packet telephony technologies.

Recommended prerequisites
  • Working knowledge of networking fundamentals, including LANs, WANs, and IP switching and routing
  • Interconnecting Cisco Network Devices 2 (ICND2) or equivalent internetworking skills and knowledge
  • Ability to configure and operate Cisco routers and switches and to enable VLANs and DHCP
  • Knowledge of traditional PSTN operations and technologies
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