Cisco Voice over WiFi Solution（思科无线语音解决方案）.pdf

White Paper Cisco Voice over Wi-Fi Solution Motivation for Voice over Wi-Fi Wi-Fi connectivity is the most pervasive radio technology worldwide. In many areas there is more available Wi-Fi spectrum and access technology than licensed radio systems. Most of us have very good Wi-Fi access at work, school, shopping, and at home. Wi-Fi offers an excellent coverage and capacity augmentation for service providers to offer enhanced customer satisfaction in a very cost-effective manner. In mobile networks, unlicensed Wi-Fi has been used primarily as a data-only radio system. Voice has almost always been carried on licensed spectrum. There has been UMA/GAN technology for Wi-Fi voice calling since 2005. This early system was heavily customized and was not well integrated into the UE handset. Hand-in to Wi-Fi and hand-out to licensed radio did not work all that well. After several iterations of this technology and some new standardization and handset advancements, voice over Wi-Fi (VoWi-Fi) has been rolling out to many carriers worldwide. VoWi-Fi now offers transparent hand-offs from Wi- Fi to licensed radio for voice calls. Apple iOS (since iOS 8) and Samsung Android support this capability natively in the handset. This represents a huge inflection point in acceleration of mobile voice services. Since early adoption announced by Everything Everywhere and T-Mobile in late 2014, the list of global operators deploying VoWi-Fi has been growing rapidly. The Cisco Visual Ne