Category: Telecom Info

High availiability and Scalibility in VoIP platforms

Load Balancers MPLSService-discoveryKeepalive, unregistering unhealthy nodesReplicationData Store Replication Quick Response / Low latencyScalabilityautoscallingPartitioiningMultiple PoPs (point of presence)Minimal Latency and lowest amount of tarffic via public internetHigh availiability (HA) 5 9's in aggregate failuresHA for Load balancer (LB)HA for Call Control app server Media Server HASecurity against malicious attacksMITMDDOS Identifying outages , logs and pcap analysis … Continue reading High availiability and Scalibility in VoIP platforms

SIP Trunks

Traditional trunk call SIP trunk (older) systems Centralized SIP Trunk Model SIP trunking is an IP-based alternative to ISDN trunking services Planning to set up SIP trunk Features of SIP trunking Future of SIP trunks With the dawn of IP telephony service and cloud communication platforms in recent years, the SIP has caught the attention … Continue reading SIP Trunks

VoIP system DevOps, operations and Infrastructure management, Automation

operate and maintain a growing large scale VoIP Platform PCAP Collections CICD on Jenkins pipeline Configuration management using chef cookbooks virtualization and containerization using Docker Infrastructure management using terraform / Kubernetes Logs Analysis and Alarming

Gstreamer

GStreamer ( LGPL )is a media handling library written in C for applications such as streaming, recording, playback, mixing and editing attributes so on. Even enhanced applications such as transcoding , media format conversion , streaming servers for embedded devices ( read more about Gstreamer in RPi in my article here). It is a pipeline … Continue reading Gstreamer

OTT ( Over the Top ) Communication applications

Market trends are not in favour of Telecom Service /providers with increasing use of OTT ( Over The Top ) applications like WhatsApp, Facebook messenger, Google hangouts, skype, Viber, etc. OTT applications are often blamed to take a stake in voice traffic revenue by using IP calls where the telco could've charged based on its … Continue reading OTT ( Over the Top ) Communication applications

Business Challenges for a telecom service provider

With the fast pace of telecom evolution both towards the access network front ( ie GSM , UMTS , 3G , 4G , LTE , VOLTE ) to core network side ( ie application servers , registrar , proxies , gateway , media server etc ) a CSP ( content service provider ) is trying hard to keep up with the user expectation . The user expects a plethora of services , reduced cost and high speed bandwidth . If this was not enough a CSP also has competition OTT ( Over The Top ) Players who provide communication and messaging for FREE .