Straight answers to your most challenging IP Telephony concerns, and the real-world skills to use them

The“How to” Guide for IP Telephony

This two-day hands-on course was designed to provide you the“how to” guide on IP Telephony implementation. You've read the hype, seen the web seminar, and heard the vendors’ sales pitches - now get down to the details of how to deploy an IP telephony solution that fits within your infrastructure and provides the services you need.

What You Need to Know

There are now hundreds of vendors offering IP Telephony solutions. You have a vast array of deployment options. The key to success in IP Telephony is matching your requirements and infrastructure to the solutions available. Understanding the options enables you to mitigate your risk and keeps your deployment costs down by helping you prevent over-engineering.

Getting your information from an Unbiased Source

An IP Telephony deployment impacts all aspects of a company, from your IT infrastructure to your business processes. Your users will need to be trained. New business rules will need to be defined. Your voice services team will have to be re skilled. Your software and hardware vendor isn't the most reliable source for what your most efficient and effective solution options are. As for consultants, they feed off your ignorance. Integrating IP Telephony Solutions was developed to provide you an unbiased presentation of all your options, in technical detail.

Training and Mitigates Your Risk

With a detailed understanding of all your options, you can select the right vendor to successfully integrate your IP Telephony solution. Learn how you can utilize your existing legacy PBX and voice mail systems. Get hands-on configuration experience on SIP Softphones. Incorporate integrated messaging into your solution. See the flaws, weaknesses, and security holes of IP Telephony and learn how to steer clear of them. With this two-day course you will put it all together and walk out experienced and ready to execute an IP Telephony deployment.

8 Hands-On Labs and Case Studies

This two-day interactive class will use demonstrations and hands-on labs to reinforce the key concepts you will learn throughout the course. (You must bring your laptop to participate in the hands-on labs during this course.)

Immediate benefits of attending this class:

• Deploy a test network that will allow you to effectively design and test your Planned IP Telephony implementation before installation
• Evaluate existing voice services, gauge features vs. costs
• Install an SIP SoftPhone live in the classroom
• Understand IP Telephony compatibility with the PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network)
• Experience Presence Management and Integrated Messaging within a VoIP Architecture
• Dissect the components of IP Telephony, understand each part and its impact on your solution
• Integrate voicemail and email in your solution
• Calculate bandwidth requirements and ensure your infrastructure can provide the necessary QoS for quality calls
• Combine WiFi with VoIP for better mobility
• Understand the new features and capabilities IP Telephony promises
• Detail the risks and flaws of IP Telephony and learn your workarounds
• Configure & manage Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)
• Implement security solutions
• Understand how an IP Telephony solution can interface with your legacy voice systems
• Learn that you don't have to "scrap" your entire IT infrastructure to make IP telephony work
• Evaluate service offerings and pricing from several leading providers in the industry
• Get detailed design and configuration guidelines on multiple deployment options
• Learn how to deploy a Greenfield Installation
• Develop dial plans for local, long distance, and international class
• Connect an SIP Proxy to a PBX
• Learn about public and private SIP Proxy Servers
• Mitigate deployment risks by learning how to utilize existing resources in your IP Telephony solution
• See, gauge and plan for the impact IP Telephony will have on all aspects of your organization
• Learn about features and capabilities you can add with IP Telephony
  
  

Who Should Attend:

This technical training course was developed for IT managers, technicians systems administrators needing to understand Voice over IP, and anyone who will manage a converged network. It doesn't matter what vendor deployment you have - this course will provide you with the skills and knowledge you need to deploy IP Telephony Solutions. This course is a MUST for:

• Project Managers
• IT Managers
• Network Engineers
• Telecom Managers
• Convergence Engineers
• IT Auditors
• Technical Project Managers
• Security Administrators
• Telecom Technicians
• Technical Sales/Marketing Personnel
• Consultants
• Network Designers & Product Design Engineers
• Managers needing to understand Voice over IP
• Systems Administrators who will manage a Converged Network
  
  

You Will Receive the ASPE SIP Softphone Toolkit Free

You will use this toolkit—along with your Free Proxim Harmony wireless card—in class by performing IP Telephony calls. This hands-on experience will give you the skills you need to effectively begin testing your network back at the office.

Your ASPE SIP Softphone Toolkit includes:

• Bootable CD with your own SIP Softphone tool
• Proxim Harmony Wireless card with external connector
• Combination head-set and microphone package