After this course, students will be able to:
- Examine and understand the purpose of SIP requests, responses, and SDP Configure SIP trunks and SIP Profiles on Cisco Unified Communication Manager (CUCM).
- Configure SIP call routing on Cisco SIP Proxy (CUSP).
- Configure URI Call routing on both CUCM and Session Border Controllers (CUBEs).
- Configure SIP CUBEs using a variety of features, including translation-profiles, patterns-maps, server groups, provision policies.
- Gather SIP traces from servers, CUBEs, routers, phones, endpoints.
- Diagnose and resolve SIP call routing issues, including one way audio, misconfiguration, and many other commonly encountered real world issues.
- Configure and troubleshoot SIP throughout their collaboration enterprise.
Module 1: Examining SIP Call Signaling and Codecs
- Describe SIP call signaling, voice and video codecs, RTP and RTCP.
- Describe the Call Setup and Teardown Process
- Describe SIP Call Signaling for Call Setup and Teardown
- Explore Media Streams at the Application Layer
- Compare Audio Codecs
- Compare Video Codecs
Module 2: Analyzing and Troubleshooting SIP Signaling
- Analyze and troubleshoot SIP and media protocols
- Examine characteristics and features of SIP
- SIP Trunking Considerations
- SIP Troubleshooting Tools
- Configuring SIP Traces using RTMT
- Using Wireshark and TranslatorX to read SIP debugs and traces
- Using Cisco Support Tools like CUBE DNA and Collaboration Analyzer to troubleshoot SIP calls
Module 3: Deploying CUCM SIP Trunks
- Examining CUCM SIP trunk features and capabilities
- Configuring SIP trunks to provide call routing
- Examining CUCM SIP trunk settings and understanding their purpose
- Examining CUCM SIP Profile settings and understanding their purpose
Module 4: Configuring Cisco SIP Proxy
- Examining and configuring SIP Proxy to route calls
- Examining SIP Proxy Call Processing
- Configuring SIP Proxy to manage enterprise calls
Module 5 Implementing SIP URI
- Call on CUCM Implementing URI calling in CUCM for calls within a cluster and between clusters
- Provide an overview of URI call routing in CUCM
- Describe Directory URIs in CUCM
- Describe the URI call routing process in CUCM
- Describe how CUCM routes SIP URI calls to other call control systems using SIP route patterns and SIP trunks
- Describe what needs to be considered when implementing URI call routing in CUCM
Module 6 Deploying ILS and GDPR
- Describe how to implement ILS between CUCM clusters and enable GDPR This lesson
- Describe global dial plan issues
- Describe the characteristics of ILS and its services
- Describe the components of GDPR and their interaction
- Describe how calls are routed using GDPR
- Describe how to implement PSTN backup for intercluster calls when using GDPR
Module 7 Deploying Cisco SIP Voice Gateways
- Describe the function, purpose, and configuration of the Cisco SIP ISR gateway
- Describe Cisco Voice Gateways
- Describe SIP gateways
- Describe Call Legs and Dial Peers
- Describe Digital Signaling Processors
- Explore the DSP Calculator
Module 8: Configuring Session Border Controllers (CUBEs)
- Configure and troubleshoot Cisco Unified Border Element (CUBE)
- Describe the Cisco Unified Border Element
- Describe the call-routing logic in CUBE for numeric and URI calls
- Understand the advanced options for CUBE
- Describe how to manipulate SIP header and SDP elements in CUBE using SIP profiles
- Understand CUBE signaling and media bindings
Module 9: Configuring Additional SIP CUBE Settings
- Describe how to implement digit manipulation, Early Offer, and OPTIONS on a Cisco SIP CUBE
- Configure Voice translation profiles on CUBE
- Configure SIP Early offer on the CUBE
- Configure MTP on SIP Trunk to support early offer
- Configure SIP OPTIONS keepalives on CUBE
Module 10: Configuring CUBE based URI Call Routing
- Configuring inbound URL dial-peer matching
- Configuring outbound URL dial-peer matching
- Configuring SIP Calling and Connected Party Info
- Configuring Provisioning Policies
- Normalizing SIP Messages
Module 11: Configuring the Summary Lab
- Configuring SIP trunks, CUBE, dial plan, and a variety of other settings students learned during the class
- There is a list of requirements that students will fulfill and SIP related problems that students will solve
- This lab helps students solidify concepts and demonstrates their proficiency in building SIP deployments
To fully benefit from this course, students should have the following prerequisite skills and knowledge:
- CCNA Voice or equivalent knowledge or,
- Knowledge gained from attending prerequisite courses: VFCC or ACUCM w/AUC
This course is intended for students who have general knowledge about:
- Cisco Unified Communications Manager
- Professionals with CCNA Voice and/or CCNP Voice Certification
- Customers that need to better understand the SIP protocol
