The goal of the planning process is to create a customized plan for deploying Cisco BLISS for Cable in your service provider telephony network. The plan will include identifying the components and technology that are needed to implement Cisco BLISS for Cable. Surveys capture information that is needed before your application is installed and configured.
Before You Begin
Work with your Cisco consultant to select an application or combination of applications.
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See Cisco Cable-Ready Solutions for VoIP 
for an introduction to VoIP systems for cable operators.
•See the Cisco PacketCable™ Primer White Paper for information about the architecture of PacketCable™ 1.1 and Cisco's implementation of this architecture.
•See the Cisco BLISS for Cable Release 2.2 Overview concept for a description of Cisco BLISS for Cable.
When You Are Done
You will understand site preparation and network communications requirements for the Cisco BTS 10200.
Note The Cisco BTS 10200 Softswitch User Documentation is password protected. See your Cisco representative for access information.
You will have completed the Network Site Survey and the Building Environment and Power Site Survey for the Cisco BTS 10200.
Go on to the Installing process.
Planning Tasks
Identifying the Components That You Need: Determine the components that are required to implement Cisco BLISS for Cable, including recommended hardware and software. Use the Cisco BLISS for Cable Components table to guide you.
Planning Redundancy: Read about and understand the requirements for a fault-tolerant network, understand the failover behavior of network components, and understand how to use this information to plan a system with optimum fault tolerance.
Planning Installation and Configuration: Be prepared with the information that you need to install and configure the Cisco BTS 10200 and other components.
Planning Concepts
Read these conceptual, overview topics for the background knowledge that you need to build an intelligent plan.
Cisco BLISS for Cable Solution Overview: An introduction to Cisco BLISS for Cable, in which individual Cisco hardware and software components are integrated for seamless interoperability.
Cisco BTS 10200 Softswitch Technical Overview: An introduction to the Cisco BTS 10200 Softswitch, a software-based, class-independent network switch that provides call-control intelligence for establishing, maintaining, routing, and terminating voice calls through the packet network via media gateways (MGWs), while seamlessly operating with legacy circuit-switched networks.
Note The Cisco BTS 10200 Softswitch User Documentation is password protected. See your Cisco representative for access information.
Other key concept topics:
Voice Services in Cable Networks
Cisco PacketCable™ Primer White Paper
Migration Paths for Voice-over-IP to PacketCable™
Cisco BTS 10200 in the PacketCable™ Network Overview
Cisco BTS 10200-Supported Signaling Protocols
PacketCable™ Lawful Intercept Architecture
Note If you have already logged into www.cisco.com with the BTS guest username and password, you may receive an error message when attempting to access the PacketCable™ Lawful Intercept Architecture document. To access this document, close all open instances of your browser, restart your browser program, and log into www.cisco.com with your own registered username and password.