Internet Programming
Control mechanisms for packet audio in the internet
INFOCOM'96 Proceedings of the Fifteenth annual joint conference of the IEEE computer and communications societies conference on The conference on computer communications - Volume 1
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This paper describes the design of an ITU-H.323 compliant architecture for supporting voice over IP in a heterogeneous environment. The system provides IP telephony services to support the two main groups of telecommunication users, namely, the conventional PSTN phone users as well as the Personal Computer (PC) users. This means that the caller-to-callee can be any of the four scenarios: PC-to-PC, PC-to-Phone, Phone-to-PC, and Phone-to-Phone. The compliance to the H.323 standard ensures its interoperability with other IP telephony equipment. A Direct call signalling with Different Gatekeepers (DDG) model has been adopted. The proposed architecture comprises five main components; the Gatekeeper, the Gateway, the Exchange server, the Web Server and the Client.