Cisco Systems Cisco AS5400, Cisco AS5350 quick start Where to Go Next, Configuration Tasks

•Establish a working IP network. For more information about configuring IP, refer to the appropriate release of the Cisco IOS IP Configuration Guide.

You can access this document at Cisco Product Documentation > Cisco IOS Software Configuration > Cisco IOS Software Release you are using > Configuration Guides and Command References.

•Complete basic configuration for the universal gateway, which includes, as a minimum, the following tasks:

–Complete your company’s dial plan.

–Establish a working telephony network based on your company’s dial plan.

•Integrate your dial plan and telephony network into your existing IP network topology. Merging your IP and telephony networks depends on your particular IP and telephony network topology. In general, Cisco recommends the following suggestions:

–Use canonical numbers wherever possible. It is important to avoid situations in which numbering systems are significantly different on different routers or universal gateways in your network.

–Make routing and dialing transparent to the user—for example, avoid secondary dial tones from secondary switches, where possible.

Configuration Tasks

•Configure your IP network for real-time voice traffic

You need to have a well-engineered network end-to-end when running delay-sensitive applications such as VoIP. Fine-tuning your network to adequately support VoIP involves a series of protocols and features geared toward quality of service (QoS). It is beyond the scope of this quick start guide to explain the specific details relating to wide-scale QoS deployment. To configure your IP network for real-time voice traffic, you must consider the entire scope of your network, then select the appropriate QoS tool or tools.

It is important to remember that QoS must be configured throughout your network—not just on the universal gateway devices running VoIP—to improve voice network performance. Not all QoS techniques are appropriate for all network routers. Edge routers and backbone routers in your network do not necessarily perform the same operations; the QoS tasks they perform might also differ. To configure your IP network for real-time voice traffic, you must consider the functions of both edge and backbone routers in your network, then select the appropriate QoS tool or tools.

To configure QoS, refer to the relevant chapters of the Cisco IOS Quality of Service Solutions Configuration Guide. You can access this document at Cisco Product Documentation > Cisco IOS Software Configuration > Cisco IOS Software Release you are using > Configuration Guides and Command References.

•Configure dial peers

Configuring dial peers is the key to setting up dial plans and implementing voice over a packet network. Dial peers are used to identify call source and destination endpoints and to define the characteristics applied to each call leg in the call connection.

For more information about VoIP, refer to the Cisco IOS Multiservice Applications Configuration Guide. You can access this document at Cisco Product Documentation > Cisco IOS Software > Cisco IOS Software Release you are using > Configuration Guides and Command References.

Where to Go Next

For additional specialized configuration procedures, refer to the appropriate Cisco IOS software configuration documentation on the Documentation CD-ROM and on Cisco.com:

For detailed configuration information specific to the Cisco AS5350 and Cisco AS5400 Universal Gateway:

Cisco AS5350 and Cisco AS5400 Software Configuration Guide.

You can access this document at Cisco Product Documentation > Access Servers and Access Routers > Access Servers > Cisco AS5350 or Cisco AS5400.

For detailed configuration information for specific features:

Configuration Guides and Command References for the Cisco IOS software release installed on your Cisco gateway.

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