Binary Systems SI Academy a Super Intelligence company
Learn it from the people who build it.Telecom, VoIP, IMS and agentic AI.
The Binary Systems SI Academy is where our engineers teach what they build. Telephony, VoIP, SIP and IMS seminars created and presented by veteran telephony and VoIP engineering consultants, with hands-on Asterisk and VoxBox labs. Now with training in the agentic AI workflows and the V platform our team builds and runs every day. Ideal for beginners and experts alike.
Instructors for the Convergence Technology Center at Collin College National BILT member for over 20 years On-site and custom
01 Who we’ve trained
Who trains the people who teach telecom?
We teach the teachers.And the telecom companies.
Our team has provided training classes for the Convergence Technology Center at Collin College under a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant, as well as for other telecom companies and at national conferences. We also sit on the other side of the table: we help decide what colleges should teach.
Convergence Technology Center
Training classes, instruction and courseware for the Convergence Technology Center at Collin College, under a grant from the National Science Foundation. Our instruction has included VoIP classes for college instructors nationwide at the annual Working Connections program.
National BILT, since the beginning
For over 20 years, since the beginning, Binary Systems has been a member of the National Business & Industry Leadership Team (BILT), which grew out of Collin College’s NSF grant. The BILT is made up of executives and technicians who meet quarterly to tell educators which skills will make graduates employable 12 to 36 months out. We advise on college curriculum.
Telecom companies and conferences
Classes for telecom companies and sessions at national conferences. NexTone outsourced its product training to Binary Systems, and we have delivered product training and technical marketing for session border controller and VoIP security gateway product lines. That expertise is in-house today, on the platforms those lines live on now.
Vendor expertise, in-house
The product lines we have trained on changed hands over the years. The expertise stayed with our team. We teach and support the current platforms:
- Ribbon Communications. The Nortel, GENBAND and NexTone lineage: Nortel’s carrier VoIP business and NexTone’s session border controllers came together in that company, which later merged with Sonus to form Ribbon.
- Sangoma: Asterisk, Digium and VegaStream. Sangoma acquired Digium, the creator of Asterisk, and VegaStream’s Vega VoIP gateways. Our VoxBox phone systems and our labs are built on Asterisk, and we train on Vega SIP and H.323 gateways integrated with Asterisk.
- AudioCodes. VoIP gateways and session border controllers.
Product and platform expertise only. Ribbon, Sangoma and AudioCodes do not endorse Binary Systems. The Convergence Technology Center, Collin College and the National Science Foundation are named for history only; they do not endorse Binary Systems.
02 Telephony, VoIP and IMS
Cut through the noise, jargon and hype.
From the PSTN to IMS.A framework that lasts a lifetime.
The course lays down the background and framework of the PSTN, then follows the evolution of networks to VoIP and the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), covering every technical fundamental. The content and its order have been refined over a span of ten years, the topics build systematically on one another, and our training and instructors have received superb reviews from students.
- Solid fundamentals. VoIP, IMS and Fixed Mobile Convergence, from the ground up.
- Know the network. The key VoIP and IMS network components, referenced against the PSTN, with the similarities and the unique capabilities.
- Why it’s built that way. Evaluate the business drivers behind VoIP and IMS network architecture.
- SIP, in depth. Develop a deep understanding of the SIP protocol.
- Find the fault. Diagnose and troubleshoot VoIP networking equipment and protocols.
- Tune for voice and video. Tune data networks for voice and video communication.
- Mobile access. Evaluate and review Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA) deployments worldwide.
- Lessons from the field. Take home real-life lessons learned from large VoIP carriers and equipment manufacturers.
Course overview
Introduction to VoIP
How the legacy circuit-switched network operates, then the protocol building blocks of VoIP and where its weaknesses hide. RTP packetization, voice compression and how signaling ties IP and legacy networks together for call routing and messaging.
Adapting legacy phone systems to VoIP
Leverage your current PBX investment. How VoIP gateways interface with PBXs, analog key systems and the PSTN; remote offices and employees; voice VPNs; when you need a softswitch or SIP proxy; and when a VoIP carrier is a must.
VoIP system architecture: the evolution to IMS
From monolithic circuit switching to SS7/AIN network elements, softswitches, gateways, IP media servers and session border controllers, then to IMS: CSCFs, HSS, MGCF/MGW, SGW, BGCF. The call state machine, illustrated at every step.
IP media: HMP vs. DSP
IP media servers, faxes and modems over IP, passthrough vs. T.38, and host media processing vs. digital signal processors. The roles and limits of each, from a single IP PBX to an entire network of IMS elements.
Control protocols: H.323, SIP and IAX
Protocol messaging, the pros and cons of each signaling type, and how these peer-to-peer protocols drive modern call state machines. The Session Description Protocol (SDP) with SIP methods and addressing. Call flows for each.
Control protocols: MGCP, H.248/MEGACO and SIGTRAN
Messaging and SDP use, the pros and cons of each, and why master-slave and SS7-over-IP protocols are being phased out of even the latest IMS architectures. Call flows for each.
VoIP security and border controllers
Session border controllers: deep packet inspection, virtual proxies, virtual routing domains, firewall/NAT traversal, P-CSCF roles and Class-4 equivalency. The security gateway in a UMA network.
IMS architecture: myths and reality
From TDM switching through AIN to IMS. The common concepts that evolved into IMS, and which pieces are really being built versus what is equipment-manufacturer hype.
Real-life VoIP deployment problems
Is your network ready for VoIP? Case studies from OEMs, softswitch partners, VARs and large carriers during rollouts. Isolate VoIP and PSTN issues, separate myth from fact, and take home expert configuration tips and a full list of engineering recommendations.
03 Hands-on labs
Reading about SIP is not the same as tracing a call.
Build it. Break it.Trace it.
Get hands-on experience with Asterisk, VoxBox and TrixBox, and with VoIP gateways. You leave having built a working VoIP system, not just a stack of slides.
- Your own PBX. Build an Asterisk VoIP system in the hands-on workshop.
- Interconnected systems. Students create their own interconnected Asterisk PBX systems, talking SIP to VoIP gateways and softphones.
- Real problems, real traces. Use network-tracing tools to analyze call flows and solve real VoIP network problems.
- Master-slave, optional. An optional lab session illustrates MGCP master-slave protocol control.
- Gateways you can buy. Binary Systems provides training services for Sangoma Vega (formerly VegaStream) SIP and H.323 VoIP gateways and integrates them with Asterisk.
- The system we support. VoxBox is our own complete phone system built on Asterisk, so the lab runs on the same platform we deploy.
04 Agentic AI workflows
How many weeks do your people spend feeding the machine?
Put agents on the paperwork.Keep your people on the decisions.
We went from process automation in 1977 to agentic AI today. This track teaches your team how we build agentic AI workflows: a coordinated crew of specialist agents takes the clerical work out of a process, and your people keep the decisions. Paperwork isn’t the work. It’s the tax on the work.
- Map the process. Find where your people spend their weeks feeding the machine, and what agents can plainly take on.
- One job per agent. Specialist agents draft, package, check and trace. The workflow says which agent may do what.
- Experts decide. Agents handle the drafting. Your experts review and decide.
- Everything traces. Every artifact traces back to where it came from.
- Inside your walls. Workflows that run on your machines, under your control. Not someone else’s subscription.
- Taught from practice. The same Assess, Build, Deploy, Support approach our team uses on enterprise AI enablement engagements.
05 V for MBSE
Every shall gets a parent. Can your program say that?
Learn the V-Model on V.Traceable from mission to baseline.
V is Binary Systems’ agentic platform for Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), the V-Model, the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and DevSecOps (development, security and operations). This track trains your engineers to run a program on V: AI agents take out the paperwork, and every requirement stays traceable.
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V product page coming soon.
What your team learns to do on V.
- Down the left leg. Drop in the CONOPS, statement of work and source documents, and work down from mission to system, subsystem and component requirements. Every shall gets a parent. No orphans.
- Up the right leg. Verification, validation, QA findings and configuration baselines, each tied to the requirement it answers.
- Trains on time. A SAFe backlog and PI plan, plus labor estimates and a basis of estimate, roll up from the same baseline, so a scope change shows up as cost and schedule, not as a surprise.
- One author for new shalls. A single agent writes new requirements. Every other agent packages, checks and traces. Engineers review and decide.
- Yours to run. V runs on your machine, driven from a console on localhost, and exports to CSV and XLSX. It works alongside your SysML tool. It is not SaaS.
06 On-site and custom
Your team, your network, your schedule.
Training built around you.Bring us in.
On-site sessions are available, and we create custom training programs to meet your needs, from a single seminar to a full curriculum. To schedule a seminar, email sales@binary-systems.com or call 972-238-9146.
- Customized curriculum. Curriculum development tailored to your team and your network.
- On-site sessions. We bring the class, and the labs, to you.
- Product training. Customized session border controller training, and Sangoma Vega (VegaStream) gateway training.
- Field personnel training. Training can be furnished for the people who install and service your systems.
Every class is scoped to your team, so every quote is too.
Talk to us
Tell us what your team needs to learn.
We’ll build the class.
Telephony and VoIP, IMS, hands-on Asterisk and VoxBox, agentic AI workflows or V for MBSE. Bring us the team and the goal.
Address
Binary Systems, Inc.4000 Telecom Parkway
Richardson, TX 75082
USA
Phone and email
Dallas: 972-238-9146
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