The H.323 protocol provides a foundation for audio, video, and data communications across IP-based networks, including the Internet. H.323 is an umbrella recommendation from the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) that sets standards for multimedia communications over Local Area Networks (LANs) that do not provide a guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS). These networks dominate today’s corporate desktops and include packet-switched TCP/IP and IPX over Ethernet, Fast Ethernet and Token Ring network technologies. Therefore, the H.323 standards are important building blocks for a broad new range of collaborative, LAN-based applications for multimedia communications. It includes parts of H.225.0 - RAS, Q.931, H.245 RTP/RTCP and audio/video codecs, such as the audio codecs (G.711, G.723.1, G.728, etc.) and video codecs (H.261, H.263) that compress and decompress media streams. Media streams are transported via RTP/RTCP. RTP carries the actual media and RTCP carries status and control information. In many cases the signalling is transported reliably over TCP. A set of additional protocols deal with signalling. RADCOM provides extensive support for H.323 . Support includes the 323Sim traffic load generator, and protocol analysis and decoding for a wide range of H.323 protocols using the MediaPro. Additional support is provided by the Omni-Q iProbe and vProbe. |
