Title: When%20will%20the%20telephone%20network%20disappear?
1When will the telephone network disappear?
- Henning Schulzrinne
- Columbia University
- June 2002
2Overview
- What is Internet telephony?
- Why Internet telephony?
- When?
- How to transition to IP telephony?
- What remains to be done?
3What is Internet telephony?
- Using Internet protocols to transmit voice in
real-time - but multimedia (and Internet radio and TV) is
almost the same ? every telephone can become a
"broadcaster" - not necessarily public Internet
- similar to streaming media, but typically human
on both ends - also known as VoIP, IP telephony
- related voice-over-packet ATM, FR, MPLS
4What is Internet telephony?
PSTN phones
soft phones
Ethernet phones
5VoIP protocols
- Mostly reuse existing protocols, from IP to LDAP
- RTP for transporting audio and video
- SIP for setting up sessions (calls)
- web-like protocol for negotiation and user
location - TRIP for finding gateways
6IP PBX
7IP Centrex
8Why Internet telephony?
- Residential user perspective
- cheaper international calls
- U.S. to India, China, Mexico
- video calls to relatives
- integration with IM and presence no phone tag
- (packaged) programmable services
- single number, regardless of medium
- mobile phone
- home phone
- office phone
- easy identifier portability
- multiple lines cheaper via cable modem, DSL
- video monitoring ? don't pay for connect time
9Why Internet telephony?
- Business user perspective
- no feature set differences between large and
small businesses - automatic call distribution (VoiceXML)
- programmable phone services
- like web programming (sip-cgi, CPL, servlets)
- every company own web page ? every company own
phone services - easy integration of email, web, IM, databases
- single CAT5 Ethernet wiring plant
- PBX maintenance costs
- PBX growth limits
10Why Internet telephony?
- Carrier/ISP perspective
- classical switches stagnant
- but still expensive
- Ethernet switch 0.04/"circuit"
- PBX 218/circuit
- Local telephone switch 270/circuit
- avoid separate management infrastructure for
voice - new PSTN services hard to deploy
- avoid dog-legged routing for mobile calls
- mobile wireline infrastructure
11Why should carriers worry?
- Application-specific infrastructure ?
content-neutral bandwidth delivery - GPRS 4-10/MB
- SMS gt 62.50/MB
- voice (mobile and landline) 1.70/MB
- anybody can offer phone service
- only need to handle signaling, not media traffic
- no regulatory hurdles
12Some differences VoIP vs. PSTN
- Separate signaling from media data path
- But, unlike SS7, same network ? lower call setup
delay - Avoid CTI complexity of "remote control"
- Mobile and wireline very similar
- Any media as session
- any media quality (e.g., TV and radio circuits)
- interactive games
13Differences VoIP vs. PSTN
- "Switches" ( SIP proxy servers) are
service-transparent - dialog transparency
- media transparency
- security transparency
- topology transparency
- functional transparency
- May not be true in 3GPP
14When will it happen?
- Took much longer than anticipated in 1995
- standards (signaling) not really ready until this
year - not just a protocol, but a whole industry and
infrastructure eco system - OSS
- billing
- testing
- features conferences, voicemail
15Technology evolution of PSTN
SS7 1987-1997
16When will it happen?
- Not too soon by traditional phone companies
- Billions of / deployed infrastructure
- 41 billion (est.) for local switches in U.S.
- debt-laden carriers
- U.S. CLECs killed by monopolies
- But others
- (business) ISPs
- cable TV companies
17A brief history
- August 1974
- Realtime packet voice between USC/ISI and MIT/LL,
using CVSD and NVP. - December 1974
- Packet voice between CHI and MIT/LL, using LPC
and NVP - January 1976
- Live packet voice conferencing between USC/ISI,
MIT/LL, SRI, using LPC and NVCP - Approximately 1976
- First packetized speech over SATNET between
Lincoln Labs and NTA (Norway) and UCL (UK) - 1990
- ITU recommendation G.764 (Voice packetization
packetized voice protocols)
18A brief history
- February 1991
- DARTnet voice experiments
- August 1991
- LBL's audio tool vat released for DARTnet use
- March 1992
- First IETF MBONE broadcast (San Diego)
- January 1996
- RTP standardized (RFC 1889/1890)
- November 1996
- H.323v1 published
- February/March 1999
- SIP standardized (RFC 2543)
19Status in 2002
- 2000 6b minutes wholesale, 15b minutes retail
- 2001 10b worldwide 6 of traffic (only
phone-to-phone) - up to 30 of U.S.-China/India/Mexico traffic
- e.g., net2phone 341m min/quarter
20Where are we?
- Not quite what we had in mind
- initially, SIP for initiating multicast
conferencing - in progress since 1992
- still small niche
- even the IAB and IESG meet by POTS conference
- then VoIP
- written-off equipment (circuit-switched) vs. new
equipment (VoIP) - bandwidth is (mostly) not the problem
- cant get new services if other end is POTS ??
why use VoIP if I cant get new services
21Where are we?
- VoIP avoiding the installed base issue
- cable modems lifeline service
- 3GPP vaporware?
- Finally, IM/presence and events
- probably, first major application
- offers real advantage interoperable IM
- also, new service
22How to transition?
- Several directions at once
- inside out
- inter-PBX trunks
- PSTN backbones
- signaling links
- outside in
- PBX and IP phones
- PC-based soft phones
23How to transition?
- 3GPP and 3GPP2 have chosen SIP and packet
audio/video as the technology for 3G Internet
multimedia subsystem (IMS) - mostly "real" SIP, with extensions
- walled garden mentality trying to prevent users
from choosing other SIP carriers
24What remains to be done?
- NAT and firewall traversal
- cheaper end systems
- naming and addressing
- quality of service
- reliability
- security
- emergency (112) features
- full IM/presence architecture
- conferencing
25Challenges NATs and firewalls
- NATs and firewalls reduce Internet to web and
email service - firewall, NAT no inbound connections
- NAT no externally usable address
- NAT many different versions ? binding duration
- lack of permanent address (e.g., DHCP) not a
problem ? SIP address binding - misperception NAT security
26Challenges NAT and firewalls
- Solutions
- longer term IPv6
- longer term MIDCOM for firewall control?
- control by border proxy?
- short term
- NAT STUN and SHIPWORM
- send packet to external server
- server returns external address, port
- use that address for inbound UDP packets
27Naming and addressing
- Users will have three types of identifiers,
several of each - phone numbers random within city ? random
within country for mobile - easy to transcribe key in on 12-button phones
- hard to remember
- portability across carriers iffy
- email addresses SIP URIs
- user_at_domain, sipuser_at_domain
- portable if own domain (20/year) or separate
from carrier - a pain for existing devices
- but need better alpha input in any event
28Naming and addressing
- Web URLs http//www.cs.columbia.edu/hgs
- personal domains?
- mostly easy to find (Google), but hard to type
29Naming and addressing
- Have any one of three, need others
phone email/SIP web
phone -- ENUM ENUM
email/SIP LDAP? SIP -- LDAP? SIP
web tel sip --
30Naming and addressing
- ENUM translate 358 8 883 9111 to
1.1.1.9.3.8.8.8.8.5.3.e164.arpa and look up - SIP-to-x Return on OPTIONS or 302
- Web-to-x defined business card rather than text
search
31VoIP applications
- Trunk replacements between PBXs
- Ethernet trunk cards for PBXs
- T1/E1 gateways
- IP centrex outsourcing the gateway
- Denwa, Worldcom
- Enterprise telephony
- Cisco Avvid, 3Com, Mitel, ...
- Consumer calling cards (phone-to-phone)
- net2phone, iConnectHere (deltathree), ...
- PC-to-phone, PC-to-PC
- net2phone, dialpad, iConnectHere, mediaring, ...
32Challenges QoS
- Bottlenecks access and interchanges
- Backbones e.g., Worldcom Jan. 2002
- 50 ms US, 79 ms transatlantic RTT
- 0.067 US, 0.042 transatlantic packet loss
- Keynote 2/2002 almost all had error rates less
then 0.25 (but some up to 1) - LANs generally, less than 0.1 loss, but beware
of hubs - voice can tolerate 10 random loss
- averages are misleading impairments are bursty
? really reliability problem
33Challenges QoS
- Not lack of protocols RSVP, diff-serv
- Lack of policy mechanisms and complexity
- which traffic is more important?
- how to authenticate users?
- cross-domain authentication
- may need for access only bidirectional traffic
- DiffServ need agreed-upon code points
- NSIS WG in IETF currently, requirements only
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35Challenges Security
- PSTN model of restricted access systems ?
cryptographic security - Dumb end systems ? PCs with a handset
- Objectives
- identification for access control billing
- phone/IM spam control (black/white lists)
- call routing
- privacy
36SIP security
- Bar is higher than for email telephone
expectations (albeit wrong) - Potential for nuisance phone spam at 2 am
- Safety attacker can prevent emergency calls
- Denial of service attacks a billion more
sources of traffic
37System model
outbound proxy
SIP trapezoid
a_at_foo.com 128.59.16.1
registrar
38Threats
- Bogus requests (e.g., fake From)
- Modification of content
- REGISTER Contact
- SDP to redirect media
- Insertion of requests into existing dialogs BYE,
re-INVITE - Denial of service (DoS) attacks
- Privacy SDP may include media session keys
- Inside vs. outside threats
- Trust domains can proxies be trusted?
39Threats
- third-party
- not on path
- can generate requests
- passive man-in-middle (MIM)
- listen, but not modify
- active man-in-middle
- replay
- cut-and-paste
40DOS attacks
- CPU complexity get SIP entity to perform work
- Memory exhaustion SIP entity keeps state (TCP
SYN flood) - Amplification single message triggers group of
message to target - even easier in SIP, since Via not subject to
address filtering
41Challenges service creation
- Cant win by (just) recreating PSTN services
- Programmable services
- equipment vendors, operators JAIN
- local sysadmin, vertical markets sip-cgi
- proxy-based call routing CPL
- voice-based control VoiceXML
42Emergency calls
- Opportunity for enhanced services
- video, biometrics, IM
- Finding the right emergency call center (PSAP)
- VoIP admin domain may span multiple 911 calling
areas - Common emergency address
- User location
- GPS doesnt work indoors
- phones can move easily IP address does not help
43Emergency calls
common emergency identifier sos_at_domain
EPAD
REGISTER sipsos Location 07605
302 Moved Contact sipsos_at_psap.leonia.nj.us Conta
ct tel1-201-911-1234
SIP proxy
INVITE sipsos Location 07605
INVITE sipsos_at_psap.leonia.nj.us Location 07605
44Scaling and redundancy
- Single host can handle ?10-100 calls
registrations/second ? 18,000-180,000 users - 1 call, 1 registration/hour
- Conference server about 50 small conferences or
large conference with 100 users - Reliability single expensive 99.999 system ?
two cheap 99.7 systems - typical reliability of good ISP 99.5 ?
dual-homing - For larger system and redundancy, replicate proxy
server
45Scaling and redundancy
- DNS SRV records allow static load balancing and
fail-over - but failed systems increase call setup delay
- can also use IP address stealing to mask failed
systems, as long as load lt 50 - Still need common database
- can separate REGISTER
- make rest read-only
46Reliability power
- In US, typically about 1.5-4 hours/year of power
outage (SAIDI, 99.95) - plus 3 short (lt 5 min) outages (MAIFIe)
- Alternatives
- cell phone ?
- UPS in Ethernet switches
- Ethernet power on spare pairs
47Large system
stateless proxies
a1.example.com
sip1.example.com
a2.example.com
sip2.example.com
sipbob_at_example.com
b1.example.com
sipbob_at_b.example.com
sip3.example.com
b2.example.com
_sip._udp SRV 0 0 b1.example.com 0
0 b2.example.com
_sip._udp SRV 0 0 sip1.example.com
0 0 sip2.example.com 0 0
sip3.example.com
48Migration strategy
- Add IP phones to existing PBX or Centrex system
PBX as gateway - Initial investment ?2k for gateway
- Add multimedia capabilities PCs, dedicated video
servers - Reverse PBX replace PSTN connection with
SIP/IP connection to carrier - Retire PSTN phones
49Example Columbia Dept. of CS
- About 100 analog phones on small PBX
- DID
- no voicemail
- T1 to local carrier
- Added small gateway and T1 trunk
- Call to 7134 becomes sip7134_at_cs
- Ethernet phones, soft phones and conference room
- CINEMA set of servers, running on 1U rackmount
server
50CINEMA components
Cisco 7960
MySQL
rtspd
sipconf
user database
LDAP server
plug'n'sip
RTSP
conferencing
media
server
server
(MCU)
wireless
sipd
802.11b
RTSP
proxy/redirect server
unified
messaging
server
Pingtel
sipum
Cisco
Nortel
2600
Meridian
VoiceXML
PBX
server
T1
T1
SIP
sipvxml
PhoneJack interface
sipc
SIP-H.323
converter
sip-h323
51Experiences
- T1/E1's are painful
- dialing plans prefixes, special codes
- billing integration
- probably best to keep separate (web-based
billing) - voice mail
- web-based voicemail major reason for switching
- difficult to impossible to integrate fully
- but can retrieve and forward
52SIP doesnt have to be in a phone
53Event notification
- Missing new service in the Internet
- Existing services
- get put data, remote procedure call HTTP/SOAP
(ftp) - asynchronous delivery with delayed pick-up SMTP
( POP, IMAP) - Do not address asynchronous (triggered)
immediate
54Event notification
- Very common
- operating systems (interrupts, signals, event
loop) - SNMP trap
- some research prototypes (e.g., Siena)
- attempted, but ugly
- periodic web-page reload
- reverse HTTP
55SIP event notification
- Uses beyond SIP and IM/presence
- Alarms (fire on Elm Street)
- Web page has changed
- cooperative web browsing
- state update without Java applets
- Network management
- Distributed games
56Controlling devices
57Standardization
- Organizations
- IETF for core protocols
- SIP for protocol extensions
- SIPPING for BCPs, requirements
- SIMPLE for IM presence
- MMUSIC for SDP SDPng
- 3GPP (3GGP2) for requirements
- PacketCable for residential requirements
58Recent SIP developments
- SIP revision (RFC2534bis) done
- semantically-oriented rewrite
- layers message, transport, transaction,
transaction user - SDP extracted into separate draft
- UA and proxy have the same state machinery
- better Route/Record-Route spec for loose routing
- no more Basic authentication
- few optional headers (In-Reply-To, Call-Info,
Alert-Info, ) - Integration of reliable provisional responses and
server features - DNS SRV modifications
59Conclusion
- Transition to VoIP will take much longer than
anticipated ? replacement service - digital telephone took 20 years...
- 3G (UMTS R5) as driver?
- combination with IM, presence, event notification
- Emphasis protocols ?operational infrastructure
- security
- service creation
- PSTN interworking
60For more information...
- SIP http//www.cs.columbia.edu/sip
- CINEMA http//www.cs.columbia.edu/IRT/cinema