The Basics Of Voice Over Internet Protocol

Previous ed. by Jonathan Davidson, James Peters, 2000.

This introduction examines the fundamentals of delivering voice over internet protocol (VoIP) service while exploring its potential in the communications market. It analyzes this trend in-depth, addressing the underlying challenges and benefits and bringing readers up to date on the evolution of VoIP service.

"A system administrator's guide to VoIP technologies"--Cover.

Understanding Voice Over IP Technology, International Edition provides students with the in-depth knowledge of Voice over IP and the TCP/IP protocol that it is based on. Voice over IP technology, or making telephone calls over data networks such as the Internet, has now reached the tipping point, and is expected to eventually become the standard telephone technology. Understanding Voice Over IP Technology provides the integral information needed by Information Technology personnel, as well as management to do their job effectively or plan for future implementations of Voice over IP. For ease of reading, the text is divided into three sections; Voice over IP Overview, TCP/IP the Platform for VOIP, and Voice over IP Technical Details. The sections cover the basics and technical elements necessary, as well as provide review resources for students. To reinforce learning, Understanding Voice Over IP Technology also provides hands-on labs that have been designed to accommodate both classroom and at home self-study. The software used in the labs is freely available for downloading from the Internet.

VoIP or Voice Over Internet Protocol is an emerging telecommunication technology that make use of IP network to carry voice just like PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) or traditional phones. There are several companies offering low cost and more flexible phones and packages of VoIP systems. Future belongs to VoIP because of its low cost and flexibility and more control.This innovative technology will change the life of people because the dream of video phone is just behind its bars. This book covers the basic architecture, usefulness, challenges and features of the VoIP Phones systems.

Voice Over IP is the #1 guide for professionals planning or running VoIP applications. Uyless Black covers every current technical standard, protocol, and interoperability solution. The Second Edition adds new chapters on gateways, call processing, and traffic engineering; presents in-depth coverage of Cisco Voice QoS; and is the first book to introduce TRIP, the breakthrough protocol for voice message delivery.

Voice Over Internet Protocol Security has been designed to help the reader fully understand, prepare for and mediate current security and QoS risks in today’s complex and ever changing converged network environment and it will help you secure your VoIP network whether you are at the planning, implementation, or post-implementation phase of your VoIP infrastructure. * This book will teach you how to plan for and implement VoIP security solutions in converged network infrastructures. Whether you have picked up this book out of curiosity or professional interest . . . it is not too late to read this book and gain a deep understanding of what needs to be done in a VoIP implementation. * In the rush to be first to market or to implement the latest and greatest technology, many current implementations of VoIP infrastructures, both large and small, have been implemented with minimal thought to QoS and almost no thought to security and interoperability.