adilmeer, Author at UCPros

15/03/202027/01/2025

Using Wireshark SIP Analysis for VoIP scenarios

Troubleshooting VoIP issues can be troublesome. When something goes wrong, the lack of direct visibility as to what is occurring on the network with SIP and RTP packets can initially be intimidating to network and voice engineers. However, Wireshark SIP analysis turns ordinary engineers into superheroes, allowing them to see deep into the network and determine exactly what is happening.

In a series of previous articles, we took a look at several methods that can be used to capture voice packets on a network. We also introduced the Wireshark packet sniffing software, providing you with a solid foundation for understanding how captured packets are obtained and stored.

In this article, we’ll get our hands dirty by examining a real voice packet capture from a production network. We’ll go through the whole scenario, delving deeply into the details of the voice packets being exchanged. Let’s get started!

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10/03/202004/11/2022

Wireshark Packet Analysis – A Preparation for VoIP Analysis

When there’s trouble in the network, and voice services are suffering, those in need will call upon you, the networking superhero! As a superhero, you use your x-ray vision to zoom in to the microscopic world of voice packets, to perform a Wireshark packet analysis, and to investigate the malfunction and make things right. Then you will be hailed as the liberator and protector of the network!

13/11/201927/01/2025

How to Solve Cisco IP Phone Voice Quality Issues. The step by step guide.

You get a call from a user stating that they have experienced poor voice quality issues with their Cisco IP phone.
Your mind goes numb, your palms get sweaty, and your eyes glaze over. What do you do? Where do you start? It’s so much easier to deal with problems where something stops working completely, rather than trying to resolve an intermittent fault such as bad voice quality.

Why are poor voice quality issues so difficult to tackle?
It’s usually because there is a myriad of different causes, and the methodology to investigate those causes is not always readily or intuitively clear. For voice troubleshooters, it is important to have a battle plan in place to quickly zero in on causes of voice degradation and to diagnose, identify, and resolve them as quickly as possible.

This article will focus on this battle plan so that you can identify the problem quickly, and determine the first troubleshooting steps, which are often the most difficult to decide upon.

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20/10/201927/01/2025

Cisco Voice Translation Rules. The Only Guide You’ll Ever Need.

Hey UC Pros! The need to interoperate across organizational and logical borders with different numbering requirements exists since the very beginning of the digital telephony.
Whether you interconnect with a SIP ITSP or your own legacy PBX, you will likely need to manipulate digits you exchange on both ends.
In Cisco IOS (and IOS-XE later) running either CUBE or Voice Gateway, Voice Translation Rules and Profiles come to a play to help you get things done.

In this article, we are going to demonstrate how this powerful feature works in general and how it applies to most common interoperability scenarios in real UC world.

Let’s begin.