Announcing the offering of Introduction to VoIP (CMSC 191: Special Topic) for the 1st Semester 2007-2008.

Description

Voice over IP (VoIP), which integrates voice in the data network, promises a lot of advantages: lower operational costs, greater flexibility, and a variety of enhanced applications in the network. This course will provide a thorough introduction to this technology to help students understand how it works and give them hands-on laboratory sessions, which can give them an edge after they graduate. The students will be introduced to the basics of telephony, VoIP protocols (H.323, SIP, MGCP, etc.), Quality of Service (QoS), security issues of VoIP and many more. Students could also expect to find interesting problems as topics for their Special Problem.

Topics

Topics include (but are not restricted to):

• Traditional Telephony
• Private Branch Exchange
• What is VoIP?
• Advantages and Disadvantafes of VoIP
• How does VoIP work?
• VoIP Protocols
• Quality of Service (QoS)
• VoIP Security
• Asterisk: IP-Based PBX

Prerequisites

Prospective students should:

1. be of Senior standing
2. have knowledge in basic networking (preferably finished CMSC 137 but not
   necessarily)
3. have knowledge in Linux administration (web server, database server, etc.)