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delay as voice data isreceived from the PSTNand transmitted to the
IP network for G.711 calls. Cisco quality-of-service (QoS) features,
including IP Precedence, Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP),
Weighted Fair Queuing (WFQ), Weighted Random Early Detection
(WRED), and Multichassis Multilink PPP (MMP) fragmentation
and interleaving, implemented on both the universal gateway and
backbone routing infrastructure, can provide a low-latency,
high-reliability path for sensitive voice traffic through today’s
networks.
Echocontrolisessentialforpacket-switchednetworkstocarryvoice
traffic successfully. The Cisco AS5350 supports ITU-T
Recommendation G.168 for echo cancellation with a tail length up
to 128 ms. Fixed and adaptive jitter buffering and comfort-noise
generation further enhance voice quality.
Voice Codecs
The Cisco AS5350 Universal Gateway offers multiple codecs to
meet interoperability, compression, and latency requirements for a
variety of phone-to-phone and PC-to-phone applications—G.711,
G.723.1 (5.3K and 6.3K), G.726, G.729ab, G-Clear and GSM-FR.
The same number of calls is supported across all codec types to
simplify network engineering. Enabling voice activity detection
(VAD) reduces packet traffic through the network. With VAD
enabled, the Cisco AS5350 detects silence and stops transmitting
packets when callers stop speaking. Variable frame sizing provides
further control over speech packetization.
Call Admission Control
ForVoIPtobeapracticalreplacementforstandardPSTNtelephony
services, customers need toreceive the same consistent,high quality
of voice transmission theyreceive with basic telephoneservices. For
real-time, delay-sensitive traffic such as voice, it is better to deny
network access under congestion conditions than to allow traffic
onto the network to be dropped and delayed, causing intermittent
impaired QoS and resulting in customer dissatisfaction.
Numerous QoS mechanisms exist in Cisco IOS Software to allow
service providers to design and configure packet networks that
provide the necessary low latency and guaranteed delivery
required for voice traffic. These mechanisms include tools such as
queuing, policing, traffic shaping, packet marking, and
fragmentation and interleaving.
Call admission control (CAC) extends the QoS tool suite to protect
voice traffic from being negatively affected by other voice traffic,
keeping excess voice traffic off of the network. CAC allows the
Cisco AS5350 Universal Gateway to make deterministic and
informed decisions before a voice call is established based on
whether the required network resources are available to provide
suitable QoS for the new call. CAC provides:
• Voice call admission decisions based on overall CPU utilization
and call arrival rate at the individual gateway
• Voice call admission based on the prevailing conditions in the
packet network such as end-to-end latency, jitter, or the ability
to reserve the resources required to handle the call and assure
quality
• Reporting information about only the available circuits to
H.323 gatekeepers, taking into account the circuits in use for
data, voice, or fax services to achieve higher call-success rates
Fax Features
Fax transmission over an IP infrastructure is an important and
growing service opportunity, especially in international markets
where fax represents a large percentage of network traffic. The
Cisco AS5350 Universal Gateway supports standards-based T.38
Real-Time Fax Relay and T.37 Fax Store-and-Forward, allowing
greater interoperability between networks. The fax detection
capabilities of the Cisco AS5350 allow service providers to offer a
single E.164 number for subscriber voice and fax services. Half as
many subscriber phone numbers are needed, resulting in significant
cost savings. The Cisco AS5350 also supports fax passthrough
upspeedfor VoIP environments thatcannotsupport T.38 Real-Time
Fax Relay end to end.
Time-Division Multiplexing Switching
Time-divisionmultiplexing(TDM)switching istheabilityto takean
incoming call on a given DS0 and send it out on a different DS0
before the call is answered by the gateway. This feature is used in
applications such as:
• SS7 to Primary Rate Interface (PRI) grooming
• Local number portability (LNP) support in Europe
• Meeting special provisionary requirements for test calls (for
example, 911 call handling)
This feature does not require any DSP resource and hence has no
impact on the dial, voice, or fax handling capability of the platform.
TDM switching plus network-side ISDN functionality provides a
means of grooming incoming traffic and passing selected calls to
external devices, such asprivate branch exchanges (PBXs),test sets,
VoIP gateways, or access servers. The Cisco AS5350 is capable of
switching calls between SS7, PRI, and channel-associated signaling
(CAS) trunks.
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