Management Architecture of Voice-over-Packet Gateway in the Converged Networks

摘要

To improve the use of the communication infrastructure and to minimize investment and operation cost, voice and data networks are moving towards convergence. For a smooth evolution to the converged networks, gateways are needed to integrate the functionality and features of traditional circuit switching with advanced packet switching techniques to provide end-to-end converged multimedia services. To adapt future technologies easily and provide multi services with a single physical network, the architecture of gateway should meet some requirements such as multi-plane system model, the separation of call control and service from switching, integrated gateway network management, and switch resource partition. This paper proposes the management architecture of the voice-over-packet gateway meeting those requirements. The management process flows under the architecture are discussed.