Softswitch for Not Yet Techies

"Computer Careers: Setting Up IP Networks that Can Also Carry Voices. Soft Switch Implements VoIP"

by Richard Stooker, President Info Ring Press and author of Secrets of Changing to a Computer Career

Softswitch is a generic architecture for Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) that enables the sending of telephone voice transmissions over the Internet and any other IP network. Softswitch is an open application program interface (API) used to connect the public switched telephone network (PSTN) to the Internet by separating the call control functions of a phone call from the media gateway or transport layer.

Softswitch is cheaper, simpler, smaller and more convenient than conventional telephone switches, especially compared to Class 4 switches (for long distance calls) and Class 5 switches (for local calls). These hardware switches cost $10,000,000 or more and occupy the space of a city block.

It is about the size of a refrigerator and is proportionately cheaper. Therefore, it is ideal for helping new telephony service providers compete with established companies. It is the platform for the next generation of packet communications - which will carry voice, data, video, broadband and wireless data.

The current telephone infrastructure is out of date. It provides call control or intelligence for managing a call over an IP or other type of network. Softswitch is based on open standards and VoiceXML.

There're 3 elements to a Softswitch network:

Access
Switching
Transport

The 5 most important Softswitch parameters are:

Bandwidth
Delay
Gutter
Echo
Packet Loss

IP phones use two kinds of VoIP protocols:

H.232
Session Initiating Protocol

Next: SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol

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