Setting Up a VoIP Phone System Using Open Source Tools.

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is simply the transport of voice traffic over the Internet or any IP-based packet-switched network. This is in contrast with the traditional telephone network, carrying voice data over dedicated circuit-switched transmission lines. A major challenge to implementing VoIP is to ensure sufficient bandwidth, and access to the available bandwidth is controlled and prioritized. Sufficient bandwidth is required to maintain highquality voice. On the other hand, controlling it limits bandwidth-hogging applications and guarantees access to delay-sensitive applications. The objective of this paper is to familiarize the readers with building a test VoIP lab setup using open-source tools; experimenting how different network impairments would affect VoIP quality; and explaining the lab setup activities, investigations, data analysis and research. Subsequently, the paper gives an overview of various technicalities such as operating system, servers, codec selection, signaling protocols, etc. involved in achieving network quality-of-service. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]