Transcript MPLS and QoS integration on IP networks Web Services

i2CAT experiences in advanced SIP-based
communications
Jordi Trapero Puig
Fundació i2CAT
TNC2007, Lyngby, 23 May 2007
Outline
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Towards service integration
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SIP protocol for multimedia communications
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I2cat experiences in SIP-based communications
 PIT-CAT project
 SIP-CMI Platform applied to High-Definition Video
Conferencing (on behalf of [email protected])
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Towards service integration
INTERNET ISNOT ONLY DATA SERVICES !!
PREVIOUS SCENARIO
IP AS AN EXAMPLE
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CURRENT TREND
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SIP protocol for multimedia communications
• Most multimedia communication are connection-oriented services.
• Control plane in multimedia communications is the responsible of
the establishment, maintenance and termination of multimedia
sessions.
• Two major session control protocols are:
SIP
H.323
IETF recommendation (RFC 3261)
ITU-T recommendation
Designed to be integrated into the
Internet architecture
Based on the Q.931 ISDN protocol
Main features: flexibility, text-based,
simplicity
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Main features: Robustness,
interoperability,integration of
data/voice/video in the same flow
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i2cat experiences in SIP-based communications
• Pit-cat project: ToIP neutral exhange point to
interconnect ToIP ISP, independently of the signalling
protocol and media codec they use.
• Machine Project: Design and implementation of a SIPbased signalling plane for High Quality Videoconference
system.
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PIT-CAT PROJECT
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Avoiding ToIP islands
• With the growth of IP telephony traffic, an increasing
necessity to exchange traffic between operators has
emerged.
• How can operators interconnect their IP networks and
exchange traffic?
IP
(CONMUTACION
PAQUETES)
BILATERAL PEERING Х
SS7/TDM
(CONMUTACION
CIRCUITOS)
TSP 1
IP
(CONMUTACION
PAQUETES)
TSP 3
?XP
PEERING THROUGH PSTN Х
TSP 2
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MULTILATERAL PEERING
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TSP 2
TSP 2
ALL IP
PSTN
TSP 4
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PIT-CAT project
• Project objectives:
Design, develop and rollout of a SIP-based neutral platform (PUNTO)
based upon open source and ad-hoc tools that provides an IP
telephony peering service, guaranteeing signaling interoperability
(SIP<->H.323) and media management (transcoding).
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Main features:
– Provides signaling and media interoperability
– Multi-domain addressing based upon ENUM protocol
– Call monitoring and generation of CDRs
– Implemented using open-source and ad-hoc tools
• It’s currently being deployed in CATNIX infraestructure to be
the first ToIP eXchange point in Catalonia
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TXP vs IXP
Why already deployed Internet eXchange Points (IXP)
can’t provide ToIP peering service?
IXP
TXP
 L3 routing (IP)
 L7 routing (Aplication)
 Billing based on capacity
 Billing
 Low-intrusion infraestructure
 High-intrusion infraestructure
(signaling
and
media
interoperability,
ENUM-based
routing, call monitoring).
 QoS: Priorizes throughput
 QoS: Priorizes jitter and delay
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based
and/or time
on
capacity
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TXP architecture overview
PUNTO Core Network Management (PCNM):
ContainsCore
the infraestructure
destined to provide operation support. Main tasks of
PUNTO
Network (PCN):
this subsystem are:
SIP-based network where services that provide interoperability between peered
• Monitoring
services and
operators
are deployed.
It’sinfraestructure
based on open-source tools such as Asterisk, Sip
• BillingRouter,
and data
collection
Express
gnugk,
BindDNS and kvoipmonitor
• Service configuration management and service provisioning
• Trouble ticketing
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Call monitoring subsystem
• Main aims:
– To check call establishment and termination.
– To provide call detail registers for billing services
– To generate call statistics of calls routed by PUNTO
• Main actors:
– An agent deployed on the SIP proxy that monitorizes call
signaling and generates events for each processed SIP call
transaction detected
– An RTP traffic sniffer that handles the events thrown by
the agent deployed on the SIP proxy and captures all RTP
packets
– A database to store call statistics
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Multi-domain addressing
• PUNTO uses ENUM protocol (RFC3761) to solve address
resolution between VoIP domains.
• Each operator publishes their records on the ENUM server
deployed in PUNTO infraestructure
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VOXMA
• GUI –based management subsystem
• Key features:
– Service discovery protocol: Discovers active services
deployed on the network and uses this information to
self-configure it.
– Host performance monitoring and service availability
– Alarm generation
– Service entitity configuration
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VOXMA
SERVICE DISCOVERY
SUBSYSTEM (SDS)
NETWORK DIAGRAM
CONFIGURATION
MONITORING
ALARM VIEWER
ACTIVE ALARMS
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MACHINE PROJECT:
SIP-CMI Platform applied to HighDefinition Video Conferencing
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State-of-art in High Definition environment
• High Definition MultiConferencing become a key service
providing a sense of a virtual meeting room for the group
• Large corporations and even SMEs are now looking at Video
Conferencing to save time, costs and the hassle of travelling
• Current systems are focused low to medium quality
conferencing systems (H.320 and H.323).
• High quality VideoConferencing systems
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DVTS send DV video over IP @ 30 Mbps
UltraGrid full rate uncompressed HD video up to 1.5 Gbps
Are focused on how to transport high bit rate multimedia data
Do not provide mechanism to control it
• Signalling mechanisms
– SIP-CMI follows the principle that any continuous media service
can be accessed by using the SIP protocol
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Implemented solution
• Main aim
– Get a multiconferencing platform with high quality video
– Signalling plane compatible with other devices/clients
– Support new formats in the future
• Three tasks
– Standard SIP Client that support HD videos with two
interfaces: Web and Java Swing
– Media transmission platform using DVTS and UltraGrid
– Become to a multipoint conference adding a MCU (Multipoint
Control Unit)
– Based on SIP
– Support high quality videos
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Innovations
• Provide a signalling plane to High Quality VideoConference
system
• SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) as signalling protocol
– SIP is an application-layer control (signalling) protocol for
creating, modifying and terminating sessions with one or
more participants
• Interoperable with all SIP devices
• Deployed additional modules
– Presence Service
• Independent of video transmission system
• Simple MCU. Low requirement for act as MCU
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MCU
• Nowadays multicast has a
limited deployment
• Multiconference scenario is
not scalable
User 2
INTERNET (no
multicast)
User 1
User 1
flow
MCU
Internet
User 2
Internet
Internet
User 1
(Producer)
User 1
video
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User 2
video
User 3
video
User 3
User 2
flow
User 3
flow
User 3
• Architecture scalable for
every user
• Producer manage MCU
• MCU replicates and
forwards user flow
• Any user can become in
MCU, displacing the
operator philosophy
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Implementation of MCU
•
Video flow commutation
– Replicates and commutes video flows
– Works on UDP layer
– Based on a CESNET Packet Reflector implemented in C
language
– Support new formats in the future
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Signalling plane
– Based on JainSip reference implementation
– Added new “DO” sip message for producing purposes
– Multiconference session controlled by the MCU
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Full architecture
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Thanks!!
For demonstrations, please visit i2CAT Booth
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