Cisco PGW 2200 Bootcamp

RRP: £5000 (plus VAT)
Duration: 10-Day Bootcamp

DESCRIPTION

An intensive and flexible event using instructor led techniques giving delegates the chance to learn, experiment and configure the PGW solution in Call Control mode
The emphasis is on a workshop environment where delegates can also make use of the instructors consultancy skills for specific areas of interest to them

The main elements of the boot-camp are:

  • Configuration
  • Breakdown and Troubleshooting
  • ITP
  • Implementing and Troubleshooting Dial Plans

IMPORTANCE

The Boot-camp is recommended for students who plan to deploy and maintain the Cisco PGW2200 solutions

SUITABLE FOR

Systems Engineers, Planners, Designers, Channel Partners/Resellers, Customers.

PREREQUISITES

The courses presume delegates are familiar with most of the following topics:

  • TCP/IP, Basic IP hardware, LANS, Routers, Switches, Firewalls, Gateways, Gate Keepers.
  • Qualification to Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) level

COURSE CONTENTS, BENEFITS AND POSITIONING

This boot-camp focuses on the Cisco PGW2200 in its Call Control mode of operation.
The boot-camp has three distinct elements:

  • Configuration
  • Breakdown and Troubleshooting
  • Dial Plans

Configuration Element

Individual features covered include the PGW in its role of: VoIP Packet Transit, H.323 Signaling Interface (HSI), PSTN-SIP gateway, MGCP-Dial termination and TDM-TDM hairpinning. Participants learn by doing during lab sessions. With step-by-step instructions, participants use VSPT to create a configuration that includes the above features

After finishing this module, the student will have covered:

  • Define Cisco Open Packet Telephony (OPT) architecture.
  • Describe the Cisco PSTN Gateway Solution.
  • Identify solution hardware and software components.
  • Identify and define features of Cisco MGX8850 with VISM.
  • Define Cisco Signaling Link Terminal (SLT) functionality.
  • Provision Cisco PGW2200, and VISM gateway (VSPT generated not 8850 CLI).
  • Provision Number Analysis (Dial Plans).
  • Configure Cisco SLT.
  • Use Man-Machine Language (MML) to control the Cisco PGW2200.
  • Identify basic solution troubleshooting tools
  • Cisco’s layered approach
  • PSTN Gateway Based Solutions
  • PSTN Gateway Supported Protocols
  • Backhaul Protocols and Backhauling
  • Cisco PSTN Gateway Solutions
  • Media Gateway Controller Software Architecture
  • Introduction to VSPT

Breakdown and Troubleshooting Element

This element practices the knowledge and skills required to troubleshoot PGW/HSI systems and IP network deployments, addressing both design/planning practices and hands-on experience troubleshooting

The delegates will spend their time in theory/lab sessions learning various Cisco and generic commands and tools e.g. Show and Debug on IOS devices, VSPT, PGW/HSI MML commands, Snoop on Solaris, Call Tracing on the PGW and HSI, and retrieving logs and alarms in order to troubleshoot.

There will very little, if any, in the way of Technology theory.

After finishing this module, the student will have covered:

  • Use IOS Show and debug Commands to verify normal and abnormal behaviour in IP, MGCP, H323 and SS7 Operation.
  • Use Snoop, VSPT, MML and Call Trace Commands on Solaris machines to verify normal and abnormal behaviour on the PGW, HSI and their interaction with other Nodes such as the SLT and MGW Cisco IOS Voice Gateways.
  • Understand PGW Dial Plans.
  • Troubleshoot TDM Interfaces on Cisco IOS Gateways.
  • Troubleshoot Digital Interfaces.
  • Understand MGCP, Cisco IOS MGCP Gateways, and Cisco IOS Gateways using the H.323 Protocol.
  • Troubleshoot problems with Ringback and Other Progress Tones.
  • Developing a Troubleshooting Methodology or Approach.
  • Production versus Nonproduction Outages.
  • Understand the Troubleshooting Tools.
  • Sniffer Traces.
  • Bug Toolkit.
  • Troubleshoot routing and switching issues.
  • Identify issues that affect QoS.

Dial Plan Element

Covers Dial Plans that enable the Cisco PGW 2200, running the Cisco MGC software, to communicate with the Signaling System 7 (SS7) network and with the system components that control Cisco media gateways and bearer-traffic routing

After finishing this module, the student will have covered:

  • Understanding PGW dial plans using VSPT, simwriter & mml
  • Dial plan analysis A/B digits, pre-analysis, etc
  • Using multiple dialplans
  • Longest/shortest digit match
  • Digit modification A/B digits, NOA
  • AOC screening, charge table, transit network selection (TNS), country code
  • Route features e.g. weighted trunk groups, route advance, bearer capability based routing, codec selection, carrier translation
  • Conditional routes e.g. Time of Day, Holidays, percentage based
  • Call redirection, limiting
  • Call screening CLI, H323-ID, IP address, A/B blacklists
  • Emergency call handling
  • Local Number Portability (LNP)
  • Announcements
  • IN services – TCAP
  • Call Routing Theory
  • Pre Analysis
  • H323-GW Permit IP Address
  • H323-CLI
  • SIP