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Figure 2 AccessPath-VS3, Large Scale Carrier Class VoIP Solution
Quality of Service
Today, major enterprises and service providers are deploying
worldwide toll-quality VoIP networks. Cisco voice
technology maintains carrier-quality communications in the
face of most adverse network conditions, including packet
delay and packet loss. Both packet loss and packet delay can
have a significant adverse impact on speech quality.
Thehigh-performancevoicecoprocessordesignofCisco
voice gateways minimizes delay and packet loss during the
voice encoding and packetization process. Cisco QoS
features, including IP Precedence, Resource Reservation
Protocol (RSVP), Weighted Fair Queuing (WFQ), Weighted
Random Early Detection (WRED), andMulticlass Multilink
PPP (MP) fragmentation and interleaving, implemented on
both the voice gateways and backbone routing
infrastructure, can provide a low-latency, high-reliability
path for sensitive voice traffic through today’s networks.
In Mier Communications tests, the Cisco AS5300/Voice
Gateway exhibited the lowest latency of any VoIP
product—using industry-standard H.323 and G.729
CODEC. The Cisco AS5300/Voice Gateway VoIP solution
typical latency clocked in their lab was only 70 milliseconds.
Applications
Service Provider Long-Distance Services
Service providers (SPs) can leverage their existing IP
infrastructure to deploy VoIP. The Cisco packet telephony
solution is based on H.323, an ITU standard that provides a
foundation for data, audio, and video, and communications
across IP-based networks. Because SPs already offer Internet
access, they can readily offer long-distance service
by incrementally adding voice-enabled Cisco AS5300/Voice
Gateway ports, additional Primary Rate Interface (PRI),
T1, or E1 interfaces to the PSTN, and a gatekeeper to serve
multiple gateways. The Cisco 2600 and 3600 can be utilized
as a gatekeeper. The Cisco AS5300/Voice Gateway voice
gateway is also interoperable with other vendors’ H.323
gatekeepers. The service provider can use existing RADIUS
servers for authentication, authorization, and accounting
(AAA) as well as existing routers and Ethernet switches
located in the POPs.
The voice gateway application software enables the
router to connect voice calls between PBXs, key systems, or
PSTN circuits, transporting the conversations across an IP
network. Incoming calls are terminated on the voice/fax
feature card, where the voice is encoded using ITU standard
algorithms, compressed and encapsulated in Real-Time
Protocol (RTP) packets.
Additionally, the Cisco AS5300/Voice Gateway voice
gateway has an IVR application that providesvoice prompts
and digit collection in order to authenticate the user and
identify the call destination.
A variety of IVR scripts are provided by the Cisco IOS
software; for example:
• Announcement—can be used as part of a script to greet the
user and identify the service
• Automatic number identification (ANI)-based automatic
authentication
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