Internet Telephony
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Internet Telephony
Introduction
What is it?
History
IP Telephony v. PSTN
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IP Telephony v PSTN
Data Packet Switched
Circuit Switched
Calls broken to pieces
and sent to
Dedicated circuit for
destination
Better use of network
capacity
Data Network 80%
reliable
Downtime is 4 hours
per month (Data
Communications)
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Telephone Network
99.999% reliable
Downtime measured
in seconds per year
Regulation
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Voice Gateways
Physical interface
Placed between PSTN and IP
Network
Handles
signaling to and from telephone network
reception of telephone numbers
conversion of tel nos to IP addresses
voice processing
reception of voice signal
compression(to reduce bandwidth and
delay impact from Network) and
packetization
echo cancellation
silence suppression
No of gateways crucial - around 500 in
existence
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IP Telephony
Network
Gatekeeper
IP
Network
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ISDN
PSTN
PSTN
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Gateway
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Gateway
Gateway
Gateway : Bridge between PSTN & IP Networks
Gatekeeper : Admission control for network
Bandwidth control and management
Address translation (E.164 <-> IP address)
Call Management
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IP Telephony
Services
Encompasses
phone-to-phone
phone-to-PC
PC-to-PC
fax-to-fax
video conferencing
desktop collaboration
Software such as
Microsoft NetMeeting
DeltaThree’s DotDialer
IDT’s Net2Phone
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Standards
Why do we need them?
The benefits of standardisation
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Interoperability
billing, settlement and reconciliation
uniformity for carriers
marketability
Currently
• no standards for signaling
• no standard agreement on accounting
records or billing
These issues being handled through
maturing standards such as ITU’s
• H.323
• Tiphon
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H.323-The Vendors
Choice?
H.323 recommends G.723
• compresses voice to 5.3 or 6.3 kbit/s
Some using GSM algorithm
• compresses to 13.3 kbit/s, appears to
provide superior quality to G.723
Tiphon
• based on H.323
• specifies network architecture,
numbering, supplementary services
integration
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Security
Initially somewhat overlooked, now being
raised by carriers and business users
Security Issues
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User and data authentication
Data privacy (integrity, confidentiality)
Access control
Policy management
Security Measures
• Encryption
– SSL (secure sockets layer)
– TLS (transport layer security)
• Tunnelling
– Layer 2 Tunnelling Protocol (L2TP)
– establish a secure tunnel between
gateways or gatekeepers
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Encryption
SSL, TLS on transport level, suitable for
Gatekeeper-to-gatekeeper, but not if unreliable,
connectionless UDP transports the voice
IETF IPsec working group describes security
architecture for IP protocol that makes it suitable
for secure VPN
authenticates users
encrypts payload
tracks who has changed packet
Incorporated in H.323 V2 via H.235 also called H
Secure
Encryption Problems
Political/military issues (limits on keys etc)
Hardware issues (processing power)
Dealing with security issues
US Chamber of commerce announced automatic
approvals for financial institutions
Therefore encryption more readily available??
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Effect on the Traditional
Communications
Companies
Telecommunications or
information service?
Telecommunications Act 1996
promote competition
facilitate new
telecommunications technologies
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Economics
Cost savings dependent on the
provider and location
Calls between London and
Tokyo around 30 cents per
minute ($1 per minute for
POTS)
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The Future
Market predicted to grow to $560 million
by end of 1999
By 2002, 3% of US long-distance traffic,
5% of European long-distance traffic,
14% of US international traffic and 11%
of European international traffic
Not economic but service benefit
Used with video and data sharing for
multi-media communications
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