Re-establishing and improving the experimental VoIP link with
the University of Namibia:
A Case Study
 
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Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is a method or a set of rules that define the way in which voice can be transmitted from sender to reciever over a data network. A network can be any set of interconnected devices. The networks that this project deals with are the Internet and Local Area Networks (LANs). A LAN is a set of interconnected devices that are fixed to a limited geographical area and are administered or owned by a single entity. Rhodes University (RU) has a campus wide network (LAN) on which our VoIP is setup on. University of Namibia (UNAM) also has a campus wide network on which VoIP is to be setup. The two VoIP 'hubs' should then communicate with each other over the Internet. Each hub will have iLanga. iLanga was developed at RU and it is a fully functional Asterisk based PBX. Asterisk is an open source softswitch (a software based PBX) that makes it possible for calls to be established/switched. Below is an illsutration of the intended project setup:

project VoIP set-up


Please visit the links below to read up on interesting information or resources regarding VoIP. More interesting links can be found in the project thesis, short paper, literature review and proposal.

Links:

1. Next Generation Networking: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next_Generation_Networking

2. VoIP: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VoIP

3. Document on voice quality (QoS): http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk652/tk698/tsd_technology_support_protocol_home.html

4. Document on VoIP: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk652/tk701/tsd_technology_support_protocol_home.html

5. FAQs on VoIP: http://www.wainhouse.com/files/papers/wr-faq-ip-conf.pdf

6. Asterisk: Learn about VoIP, iLanga and Asterisk

7. Asterisk installation on fedora: Steps for asterisk installation

8. Rhodes repository: Rhodes University repository

9. RPM repository: RPM repository (pbone.net)

10. Linux | Apache | MySQL | PHP | Perl: LAMPP

11. Comercial facts about VoIP: Market Place

12. Trends in voice communication: Trends

13. Video over SIP: Can you send video over SIP?

14. Video over IAX: Can you send video over IAX?

15. VoIP in Africa: Legalization of VoIP in Africa

16. Internet bandwidth in Africa: Legalization of VoIP in Africa

17. SAT-3: Improved Internet Bandwidth

18. VoIP in Africa: Legalization of VoIP in Africa

   
Last Updated :  11 November, 2007 15:34