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This article reports on the March Networks/Analog Devices Voice-Over IP Laboratory at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario. The laboratory was designed to provide students hands-on experience in Internet Protocol (IP) technologies. Mitel Networks equipped the lab with a March Networks 3200 integrated communications platform and telephone peripheral unit, which supports voice communication over-IP-based networks as well as traditional time division multiplexing and analogue telephony networks. Mitel also supplied analogue, digital and IP phones for each of the 20 workstations. Analog Devices provided the laboratory digital signal processing equipment, which includes development kits and software tools that enable students to change the algorithms within the phones. Carleton students in the electrical engineering, computer systems engineering and communications engineering programs are using the lab. Not only does the lab enable students to put their theoretical knowledge to practice, but Mitel hopes it will provide the company with some research assistance. Mitel executive Peter Perry noted that universities with industry partnerships are able to better streamline their research efforts into real-world areas.

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