Voice Over IP Networks

Voice Over IP Networks By Marcus Goncalves * Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies * Number Of Pages: 352 Product Description: There's no hotter, or potentially more lucrative Internet application than telephony. And any company running a TCP/IP stack network can deliver it. This book tells you how. Once a guest on telephone lines, the Net now threatens a takeover of its host's principal function: voice communications. For intrabusiness use or as a public system, Internet-based telephony can be a real money-saver, or money-maker. In Voice Over IP Networks, you'll learn everything you need to: understand Voice Over IP (VOIP) standards and technology; compare leading vendors and their Internet telephony products?3Com, Motorola, Lucent, VocalTec, Vienna Systems, Nuera Communications, and more; evaluate advantages of the IPv6 vs. IPv4 protocols; use RSVP, RTSP, IP Multicast, SONET, ATM, and other technologies for telephony; apply Codecs to voice digitization; emulate T1/E1 trunks; and anticipate trends and new products from innovative companies such as Qwest. From basic concepts to advanced configuration and troubleshooting issues, this book is your direct line to Internet telephony answers. With all the help you need to get your system up and running, Voice Over IP Networks moves you to the head of the line to profit, in a big way, from Internet telephony. Amazon.com: Sorting out the competing and sometimes conflicting claims made about the different technologies available to implement Voice over IP (VoIP) telephone solutions is difficult, even for professionals in the field. In Voice over IP Networks, Marcus Goncalves provides an in-depth look at the technologies available and solutions provided by a wide range of suppliers. The first chapter covers Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6), and is followed by chapters that explain Resource Reservation Setup Protocol (RSVP), IP Multicasting, and Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM). Broadband packets are covered in chapter 6. The second part of the book covers codecs and evaluates offerings from a large number of suppliers in the VoIP industry. The CD-ROM that comes with the book contains product information from ABL, Telogy, and Nuera, including many white papers on VoIP technology. This book will help anyone planning to implement telephone service using VoIP determine which technologies to use. Its clear style and intelligent use of graphics makes the material much more accessible than it would otherwise be. A good general understanding of telephony technology is recommended for readers of this book. --Robert Frankland Quote: http://rapidshare.com/files/146487348/Voice_Over_IP_Networks_www.softarchive.net.rar