VoDSL

By: Aziz Ur Rehman

What is VoDSL?

 VoDSL is means of using the copper infrastructure

to provide both quality voice services as well as
support a wide variety of data applications over
the same existing line to the customer’s site
 It gives data Competitive Local Exchange
Carriers (CLECs) a way to increase revenue
potential
 Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers (ILECs) an
answer to the cable modem
 Interexchange Carriers(IXCs) a way to gain
access to the local voice loop
What is VoDSL? (cnt)..
Reasons to Adopt VoDSL

 Voice over DSL (VoDSL) is a new service that has

been widely adopted in the telecommunications
industry. The following key drivers explain why:
– The continuing drive toward voice/data convergence, in
order to reduce overall network usage costs
– The success of digital subscriber line (DSL) technologies,
combined with other technological evolutions, allowing for
technical, cost-effective “voice over” solutions
– The market opportunities created by the changing way of
doing business
– VoDSL offers multiple voice connections simultaneously with
data
How many Voice Lines could an ADSL
Circuit Provide?
How Does VoDSL Work?

 VoDSL requires a platform of DSL

equipment, coupled with platform adaptations
or additional equipment that can handle the
requirements for voice services
How Does VoDSL Work? (cnt).
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The following are necessary to provide VoDSL:

 Customer Premises Equipment (CPE)
– Telephones, Private Branch Exchange (PBX), Key
System, Fax, Modem, and so forth
 Integrated Access Device (IAD)
– The IAD can serve multiple functions, including
those of a DSL modem
– The IAD serves as the interface between the DSL
network service and the customer’s voice and data
equipment
 How Does VoDSL Work? (cnt)…
Voice Gateway
303
PSTN
S 3/ OC3
D
Phone xDSL Regional
Class 5
System Packet
Network Internet
LAN IAD ISP Facilities
DSLAM

Subscriber ILEC Regional

Wire Center Switching Center
Integrated Access Device (IAD)

Multiplexes multiple telephone lines

and data onto single DSL circuit (single
copper pair)
Supplied by Jetstream, FlowPoint,
Efficient, Ramp, Netopia,...
How Does VoDSL Work? (cnt)….

 DSL Line
– Transports the data and pocketsized voice to the
nearest carrier facility utilizing existing twisted-pair
copper loops
– These loops must be able to support the distance
and quality requirements for DSL service to be
offered
 DSLAM
– Terminates multiple DSL lines and aggregates traffic
from them
 How Does VoDSL Work? (cnt)…..
Voice Gateway
303
PSTN
S 3/ OC3
D
Phone xDSL Regional
Class 5
System Packet
Network Internet
LAN IAD ISP Facilities
DSLAM

Subscriber ILEC Regional

Wire Center Switching Center
DSL Access Multiplexer
(DSLAM)
Multiplexes multiple subscribers
onto a single back-haul facility
Supplied by Nokia, Alcatel, Cisco,
Copper Mountain, Nortel,...
How Does VoDSL Work? (cnt)…..

 Data switch
– Receives the traffic from the DSLAM and separates
the data from the voice packets
– Data is sent to a data network (e.g., Internet)
– Voice packets are sent to the voice gateway
 Voice Gateway
– Voice packets are depacketize and converted to a
standards-based format (GR–303, TR–08, or V5.X) for
delivery to a Class-5 voice switch
 How Does VoDSL Work? (cnt)…..
Voice Gateway
303
PSTN
S 3/ OC3
D
Phone xDSL Regional
Class 5
System Packet
Network Internet
LAN IAD ISP Facilities
DSLAM

Subscriber ILEC Regional

Wire Center Switching Center
Voice Gateway
(CPX-1000)
Integrates subscriber voice traffic
into Class 5 local switch
How Does VoDSL Work? (cnt)…..

 Class-5 Voice Switch

– Telephony switch providing dial tone, call routing,
and services
– Generates records used for billing
 Public
Switched Telephone Network
(PSTN)
– the public telephone network
Layers in VoDSL

From a layering approach, VoDSL has several

layers as well
 Physical Layer
– Actually a twisted pair of copper wires
 Transport Layer
– Which can be handled by frame relay, ATM, or Internet protocol
(IP)
 Frame-based VoDSL actually looks like voice over frame relay
(VoFR)
 ATM–based VoDSL behaves like voice and media over ATM
(VMoA)
 IP transport for VoDSL is actually voice over IP (VoIP)
Layers in VoDSL (cnt).

 Voice Coding Layer

 Signaling Layer
 Services Layer
– Offering services from dial tone to call waiting
– The voice-capable switch in the carrier’s network
supports the services layer
Transport Methods within VoDSL

 VoDSL market was struggling in its infancy to

decide just how to transport the service
 Should IP, frame relay, or ATM be used? Each
method has its merits
 All methods are moving packetized voice across
packet-based networks to its ultimate destination
– IP has ubiquity going for it
– Frame relay has ease of implementation (if the customer
site is already a frame customer)
– ATM has the strongest quality-of-service (QoS) history
Reasons for ATM

 Analysts estimate that about 90 percent of the installed

DSLAM uses the ATM transport method back to the
switch
 Older techniques use ATM adaptation layer(AAL1),
employing byte-interleaved multiplexing, (TDM)
 Analysts are anticipated to adopt the more efficient AAL2
(with [PVCs]), which uses packet-interleaved multiplexing
 AAL2 is more efficient because it allows the network to
allocate bandwidth dynamically on the DSL service
between the demands of voice and data services
 If no voice services are in use, then the total bandwidth
can be dedicated to data services
End-to-End Architecture for VoDSL

 ATM AAL2 has been chosen as the transfer mode (DSL

Forum and ATM Forum)
 Moving from end user to the public network, the
combining of voice and data occurs in the CPE, while
the segregation occurs at the far end of the access
network
 At that point, data is fed into the edge of the Internet
service provider’s (ISP’s) data network through a
broadband remote access server (BRAS)
 Voice is fed into local existing switching equipment (i.e.,
local exchanges or, in U.S. terminology, Class 5
switches) through a voice gateway (VGW)
End-to-End Architecture for VoDSL
(cnt).
End-to-End Architecture for VoDSL
(cnt)..
 On the CPE side, a built-in gateway function converts traffic from
existing end user interfaces for voice band (e.g., POTS interface
provided over RJ-11 connectors) to packetized voice (i.e., ATM) for
transport over the xDSL transport facility
 Multiple voice connections are multiplexed into a single virtual
circuit using AAL2
 The DSLAM performs its regular xDSL modem termination and
traffic aggregation via ATM multiplexing
 The “voice gateway” converts the packetized voice to existing
interfaces (i.e., V5.2 or GR-303), connecting to the local exchange
(LEX)
 Voice services delivered via the gateway functionality in “voice
gateway” and CPE are called “derived voice services”. At the CPE,
the interfaces provided via RJ-11 jacks are correspondingly called
“derived voice lines”
Network Configurations

 Standalone VoDSL gateways or

Centralized Deployment
Network Configurations (cnt).

 Decentralized
deployment and DSLAM
and gateway integration
Benefits for the End User

 Single Provider
 Lower Costs
 Voice Quality
 Single Communication Box
 Fast Service Delivery
 New Services
Benefits for the Service Provider

 Revenue Generation
 Market Protection
 ISDN Alternative
 Copper Savings
 A Cost-effective Solution for any Type of Service
Provider
Conclusion
 In conclusion, it is clear that VoDSL is a key step in the
evolution of digital subscriber line technology. The
advantages of VoDSL are apparent: The convergence of
voice and data over a single line will lead to new revenues
streams and numerous cost efficiencies for service providers
of all types, including CLECs, ILECs and others.
 Because VoDSL leads to so many benefits for end users,
service providers will be able to increase revenue generation
significantly from new converged voice and data services.
New bundled services will be a paramount feature of this
scenario.
 IADs will be a key feature of VoDSL architecture. Their cost
will have a significant impact on the ability of service
providers to deliver competitive VoDSL.
 VoDSL could quite likely be the killer application that drives
the evolution of next generation networks.