Tuesday, September 1, 2009

CCIE voice lab modules and objectives

I will be going thru these lab modules and mark them with BLUE color when I am done.
My home lab setup should carry me thru 70% of these modules
Emphasis should be placed on " Implement and Troubleshoot"

CCIE VOICE Lab Exam Objectives:

Basic Campus Design - home lab - completed 9/7/09

  • DHCP, TFTP
  • Catalyst voice and data VLAN configuration
  • Catalyst VTP configuration

Call Manager and Call Manager Express Configuration - home lab - completed 9/22/09

  • Phone registration - SCCP , SIP endpoints
  • Phone configuration - SCCP, SIP endpoints - cme sip is giving me lots of grief

Voice Gateway and Signaling - can't simulate with GNS, will just enter GW info into CUCM

  • Analog and digital voice protocols:  T1, E1, PRI, CAS, R2
  • VoIP protocols: H323, MGCP, SCCP, SIP, RAS, IP/IP GW/CUBE

Call Routing - home lab

  • CCM route patterns (@ wildcard not tested)
  • CCM route preference and redundancy
  • IOS dial peers
  • Digit manipulation and translation

Call Admission Control - home lab

  • Location-based
  • RAS-based

High Availability Features - home lab

  • SRST
  • AAR

Media Resource Management -some part can't be simulated with GNS, i.e. hw conf, xcoder, mtp ...

  • Conference bridge software and hardware
  • Transcoder
  • MTP
  • MOH

QoS Considerations - home lab

  • L2/L3 classifications and policing
  • Queuing mechanisms
  • LFI
  • Catalyst switch QoS

Unified Messaging - home lab

  • Unity voicemail integration
  • Unity administration

CRS/IPCC Express Application - home lab

  • Default script configuration and integration
  • Custom script configuration and integration

Call Manager Voice Applications - home lab

  • Any native applications to Call Manager, examples are extension mobility, attendant console, IPMA

Supplementary Services - home lab

Directory Services and Integration - home lab


  • CUPS , CUPC