Saturday, February 12, 2011

The Five Golden Rings of CSI

It’s useful  to understand from which CSI a network transport service comes. The CSI to which a transport service belongs affects the  way in which that transport service is implemented. sider the  case of VoIP. An integral part of VoIP is the  concept of transmitting voice  packets over  the  transport. But each CSI, each transport, and  the  VoIP transport service provided therein support voice packets differently. This is because each CSI operates with different underlying protocols.


A transport line on the  PSTN CSI, for example, is a limited bandwidth, circuit-  switched medium that can support telephone services. A T1 transport is a much higher bandwidth line out  of the  DS CSI that can support many  trans- port service applications that use packet-switching protocols. Although VoIP works  under both the  PSTN and  DS CSIs, the faster T1 transport on the  DS CSI affects the  efficiency with which VoIP operates. If you’re  thinking about using  VoIP or have  concerns about the operation of your  existing VoIP, evaluate your  network transports and  transport services, paying  particular attention to which CSIs are involved. The following  sections examine, in some detail, the  various CSIs available, along  with how VoIP works  in relation to those CSIs.

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