Telecommunication Books Blog » VoIP http://www.telecombooksblog.com This blog collects telecom books for professionals, students, and people who are interested in telecommunications technology and business. Wed, 16 Jun 2010 20:18:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 en hourly 1 Practical VoIP Security http://www.telecombooksblog.com/practical-voip-security.htm http://www.telecombooksblog.com/practical-voip-security.htm#comments Mon, 09 Jul 2007 16:48:05 +0000 Tony http://www.telecombooksblog.com/practical-voip-security.htm

This book was written for the thousands of IT professionals—from CIOs to circuit-switched telecom engineers—who are now responsible for deploying and maintaining secure VoIP networks. The book explains the impact on your VoIP network of PSTN, SIP, H.323, firewalls, NAT, encryption, and the regulatory environment. Coverage includes evaluation, design, integration, and management of VoIP networking components, including IP telephones, gateways, gatekeepers, registration servers, media servers, and proxy servers. Throughout the book, the authors rely on their extensive real-world experience to provide readers with practical applications and solutions. ]]> Practical VoIP Security Thomas Porter
ISBN: 1597490601
March 2006

This book was written for the thousands of IT professionals—from CIOs to circuit-switched telecom engineers—who are now responsible for deploying and maintaining secure VoIP networks. The book explains the impact on your VoIP network of PSTN, SIP, H.323, firewalls, NAT, encryption, and the regulatory environment. Coverage includes evaluation, design, integration, and management of VoIP networking components, including IP telephones, gateways, gatekeepers, registration servers, media servers, and proxy servers. Throughout the book, the authors rely on their extensive real-world experience to provide readers with practical applications and solutions.

source: Amazon



]]> http://www.telecombooksblog.com/practical-voip-security.htm/feed 1 Talk Is Cheap http://www.telecombooksblog.com/talk-is-cheap.htm http://www.telecombooksblog.com/talk-is-cheap.htm#comments Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:07:27 +0000 Tony http://www.telecombooksblog.com/talk-is-cheap.htm

Fed up with the high tolls charged by your ordinary telephone service? If you're itching to cut the copper cord with your costly, traditional phone service, you need Talk is Cheap, the new, easy-to-understand guide to understanding and using Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and other Internet telephone options.]]> Talk Is Cheap James E. Gaskin
ISBN: 0596009607
July 2005

Technologies such as VoIP are gaining a great deal of attention these days as more people switch from standard telephone service to phone service via the Internet. But while the cost savings are outstanding, there are some issues with Internet telephony that you should know about. Are the connections reliable? Is the quality comparable? Will it include 911 services? James Gaskin’s Talk is Cheap addresses these issues and many more by explaining how to make the switch and what the tradeoffs will be if you opt for Internet telephony over traditional phone services. Talk is Cheap focuses on the increasingly popular services from Vonage, which uses VoIP, and Skype–a free service that operates as a peer-to-peer (P2P) network with the ability to turn any PC, Mac, or Pocket PC into a telephone. The book explains your options; explores the background behind, the workings of, and differences between VoIP and P2P networks; and discusses the advantages and drawbacks of both technologies (including service offerings, quality, capabilities, completion rates, and more). Talk is Cheap then goes into detail on what you can expect in Internet service from traditional phone companies such as Verizon and AT&T. In addition, you will learn more advanced techniques, including how to turn your Palm or Pocket PC into an Internet phone and how to work with Wi-Fi phones and videophones. A straightforward, quick introduction to the ins and outs of using Internet telephone services, this book provides everything you need to make informed telephone decisions–whether you’re thinking about the switch from traditional phone service or have already made it and want to get the most out of your new Internet telephone.

source: Amazon



]]> http://www.telecombooksblog.com/talk-is-cheap.htm/feed 0 Voice over IP Fundamentals http://www.telecombooksblog.com/voice-over-ip-fundamentals.htm http://www.telecombooksblog.com/voice-over-ip-fundamentals.htm#comments Mon, 07 May 2007 02:37:17 +0000 Tony http://www.telecombooksblog.com/voice-over-ip-fundamentals.htm

The authors of Voice over IP Fundamentals--three packet-voice specialists at Cisco Systems--initiate their exploration of next-generation technologies for supporting conversations across large distances: the switched telephone network as implemented on large (intercontinental) and small (building and enterprise) scales. They then point out problems with the old way of doing things and illuminate the standards and regulatory conditions that have made Internet telephony attractive. Signaling System 7 (SS7) gets particularly insightful coverage, with ample graphical support for the clear, fact-rich, example-laden prose.]]> Voice over IP Fundamentals Jonathan Davidson, James Peters, Manoj Bhatia, Satish Kalidindi, Sudipto Mukherjee
ISBN: 1587052571
July 2006

A systematic approach to understanding the basics of voice over IP

    • Understand the basics of enterprise and public telephony networking, IP networking, and how voice is transported over IP networks
    • Learn the various caveats of converging voice and data networks
    • Examine the basic VoIP signaling protocols (H.323, MGCP/H.248, SIP) and primary legacy voice signaling protocols (ISDN, C7/SS7)
    • Explore how VoIP can run the same applications as the existing telephony system but in a more cost-efficient and scalable manner
    • Delve into such VoIP topics as jitter, latency, packet loss, codecs, QoS tools, and security

Voice over IP (VoIP) has become an important factor in network communications, promising lower operational costs, greater flexibility, and a variety of enhanced applications. To help you understand VoIP networks, Voice over IP Fundamentals provides a thorough introduction to the basics of VoIP.

 

Voice over IP Fundamentals explains how a basic IP telephony infrastructure is built and works today, major concepts concerning voice and data networking, and transmission of voice over data networks. You’ll learn how voice is signaled through legacy telephone networks, how IP signaling protocols are used to interoperate with current telephony systems, and how to ensure good voice quality using quality of service (QoS).

 

Even though Voice over IP Fundamentals is written for anyone seeking to understand how to use IP to transport voice, its target audience comprises both voice and data networking professionals. In the past, professionals working in voice and data networking did not have to understand each other’s roles. However, in this world of time-division multiplexing (TDM) and IP convergence, it is important to understand how these technologies work together. Voice over IP Fundamentals explains all the details so that voice experts can understand data networking and data experts can understand voice networking.

 

The second edition of this best-selling book includes new chapters on the importance of billing and mediation in a VoIP network, security, and the common types of threats inherent when packet voice environments, public switched telephone networks (PSTN), and VoIP interoperate. It also explains enterprise and service-provider applications and services. 

source: amazon

]]> http://www.telecombooksblog.com/voice-over-ip-fundamentals.htm/feed 0 Skype Hacks: Tips & Tools for Cheap, Fun, Innovative Phone Service http://www.telecombooksblog.com/skype-hacks-tips-tools-for-cheap-fun-innovative-phone-service.htm http://www.telecombooksblog.com/skype-hacks-tips-tools-for-cheap-fun-innovative-phone-service.htm#comments Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:51:32 +0000 Tony http://www.telecombooksblog.com/skype-hacks-tips-tools-for-cheap-fun-innovative-phone-service.htm

If you've heard about Skype--and who hasn't with all the recent media attention devoted to internet telephone services--chances are you've been mighty tempted to try it out. Skype Hacks tells you what all the Skype hype is about, explains the basics, and shows you more than 100 clever tips and tricks for tweaking and tuning Skype to make it do just what you want and more. ]]> Skype Hacks: Tips & Tools for Cheap, Fun, Innovative Phone Service Andrew Sheppard
ISBN: 0596101899
February 2005

Millions of people (48 million and counting, in fact) have opted for Skype, which uses peer-to-peer (P2P) technology to turn any PC, Mac, or Pocket PC into a telephone. Skype offers free calls between computers and extremely cheap calls to “old-fashioned” phone numbers (landlines and mobile phones). The sound quality is excellent, and end-to-end encryption means the connection is private and secure.

But if you really know what you’re doing, Skype can accomplish a whole lot more than that. Software developer and author Andrew Sheppard recently converted his entire house to Skype and uses it for all his personal and business calls, even when he’s traveling. In Skype Hacks, he shows you how to do things with the technology that even the engineers at Skype probably never intended.

Skype Hacks shows you how to:

  • Get started with Skype
  • Figure out how much money you’re saving and maximize your savings
  • Cut the ties to your old phone company
  • Optimize your Skype configuration
  • Integrate Skype with desktop tools like Microsoft Office and your web browser
  • Set up a Skype-based call center

The book offers ideas for creating and organizing a contacts list, using Skype to transfer files, taking advantage of chat and voicemail capabilities, turning a PDA into a mobile phone, and automating Skype for even greater efficiency. So whether you’d simply like to give Skype a trial run, you want new Skype ring tones and fun on-hold music, or you’re considering wiring your home with Skype to get rid of “regular” phone service altogether, Skype Hacks is your ideal guide.

source: Amazon

]]> http://www.telecombooksblog.com/skype-hacks-tips-tools-for-cheap-fun-innovative-phone-service.htm/feed 1 VoIP Hacks: Tips & Tools for Internet Telephony http://www.telecombooksblog.com/voip-hacks-tips-tools-for-internet-telephony.htm http://www.telecombooksblog.com/voip-hacks-tips-tools-for-internet-telephony.htm#comments Thu, 08 Feb 2007 17:08:13 +0000 Tony http://www.telecombooksblog.com/voip-hacks-tips-tools-for-internet-telephony.htm

"...shows you how to get the biggest bang for the buck using Internet telephony."
-- Mike Berman, Jocgeek.com

"I found most of the hacks clearly written, with enough examples to explicate the descriptions, and there is a good balance among tools that could run on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X...definitely a book for the beginner- to-intermediate VoIP enthusiast."
-- Heison Chak, ;login:

]]> VoIP Hacks: Tips & Tools for Internet Telephony Theodore Wallingford
ISBN: 0596101333
December 2005

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is gaining a lot of attention these
days, as more companies and individuals switch from standard telephone
service to phone service via the Internet. The reason is simple: A
single network to carry voice and data is easier to scale, maintain,
and administer. As an added bonus, it’s also cheaper, because VoIP is
free of the endless government regulations and tariffs imposed upon
phone companies.

VoIP is simply overflowing with hack potential, and VoIP Hacks is the practical guide from O’Reilly that presents these possibilities to you. It provides dozens of hands-on projects for building a VoIP network, showing you how to tweak and customize a multitude of exciting things to get the job done. Along the way, you’ll also learn which standards and practices work best for your particular environment. Among the quick and clever solutions showcased in the book are those for:

  • gauging VoIP readiness on an enterprise network
  • using SIP, H.323, and other signaling specifications
  • providing low-layer security in a VoIP environment
  • employing IP hardphones, analog telephone adapters, and softPBX servers
  • dealing with and avoiding the most common VoIP deployment mistakes

In reality, VoIP Hacks contains only a small subset of VoIP knowledge-enough to serve as an introduction to the world of VoIP and teach you how to use it to save money, be more productive, or just impress your friends. If you love to tinker and optimize, this is the one technology, and the one book, you must investigate.

source: o’relly.com

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]]> http://www.telecombooksblog.com/voip-hacks-tips-tools-for-internet-telephony.htm/feed 1 Cut the Cord! The Consumers Guide to VoIP http://www.telecombooksblog.com/cut-the-cord-the-consumers-guide-to-voip.htm http://www.telecombooksblog.com/cut-the-cord-the-consumers-guide-to-voip.htm#comments Thu, 21 Dec 2006 16:45:19 +0000 Tony http://www.telecombooksblog.com/cut-the-cord-the-consumers-guide-to-voip.htm Telephones have truly become an integral part of our daily lives, serving as our communication lifeline to the world. However, there have been very few advances in the basic technology of phone service - until now. Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) offers consumers a cost-effective alternative to traditional phone service. "Cut the Cord! The Consumer's Guide to VoIP" gives you the knowledge you need to decide if VoIP is right for you. It offers tips for selecting a VoIP service and advice for setting up your new service. It is packed with checklists, Web site resources, tips, and notes, and even provides examples of services that you can try before committing to VoIP.]]> Cut the Cord! The Consumers Guide to VoIP Jerri L. Ledford
ISBN: 1592009883
October 2005

“Cut the Cord! The Consumer’s Guide to VoIP,” covers the selection, installation, and operation of Internet phone services, providing comparisons of the technologies and services available in terms that non-technical readers will understand. You can save significant amounts of money with Internet telephony services and as these services proliferate, you will need a guidebook to help you select and install your own service. This easy-to-understand, step-by-step guide begins by explaining what VoIP is, its advantages, and what to expect from it, and moves on to how to install the proper equipment and select and use a VoIP service. The only book dedicated solely to consumer Internet phone services, “Cut the Cord! The Consumer’s Guide to VoIP” will also feature a supporting web site and blog with product and service comparisons and additional helpful information.

source: Wiley

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]]> http://www.telecombooksblog.com/cut-the-cord-the-consumers-guide-to-voip.htm/feed 0 IP Telephony Unveiled http://www.telecombooksblog.com/ip-telephony-unveiled.htm http://www.telecombooksblog.com/ip-telephony-unveiled.htm#comments Thu, 14 Dec 2006 16:26:08 +0000 Tony http://www.telecombooksblog.com/ip-telephony-unveiled.htm IP Telephony Unveiled The emerging IP telephony market is fraught with misunderstandings and misinformation. IP telephony can impact a company's business model in tremendous ways. It can open new revenue streams, enhance profitability, drive new levels of customer and employee satisfaction, and be a key enabler in a company's strategy to differentiate itself competitively-but only if you're aware of these benefits.]]> IP Telephony Unveiled Kevin Brown
ISBN: 1587200759
February 2004

IP Telephony Unveiled is written for all those responsible for corporate strategies for revenue generation, cost containment, and customer satisfaction. IP Telephony Unveiled uncovers the value behind this technology, which helps you see past what might appear to be only a new telephone system, to understand the strategic enabler laying dormant in many companies’ networks. Through this book, you will understand the real benefits of an IP telephony strategy and get assistance in developing this strategy inside your organization.

This volume is in the Network Business Series offered by Cisco Press. Books in this series provide IT executives, decision makers, and networking professionals with pertinent information on today’s most important technologies and business strategies.

This book explains four key points to help you successfully implement your IP telephony strategy:

  • IP telephony works today. This is not new, unproven technology. Thousands of customers have implemented IP telephony successfully. So can you.
  • Expect to save money. IP telephony may well cost your organization money-initially. But the business impact and post-installation process improvements give you a significant and rapid return on your investment.
  • It’s more than voice over IP. You’ll understand the difference between voice over IP (VoIP) and IP telephony and what that means for your business. This is critical. They are not the same. It’s more than a dial tone. There are potential business-impacting applications within your own organization. IP Telephony Unveiled helps you recognize these applications.

source: Amazon.com

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]]> http://www.telecombooksblog.com/ip-telephony-unveiled.htm/feed 0 Asterisk: The Future of Telephony http://www.telecombooksblog.com/asterisk-the-future-of-telephony.htm http://www.telecombooksblog.com/asterisk-the-future-of-telephony.htm#comments Wed, 06 Dec 2006 18:51:45 +0000 Tony http://www.telecombooksblog.com/asterisk-the-future-of-telephony.htm Asterisk: The Future of Telephony It may be a while before Internet telephony with VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) reaches critical mass, but there's already tremendous movement in that direction. A lot of organizations are not only attracted to VoIP's promise of cost savings, but its ability to move data, images, and voice traffic over the same connection. Think of it: a single Internet phone call can take information sharing to a whole new level.]]> Asterisk: The Future of Telephony ared Smith, Jim Van Meggelen, Leif Madsen
ISBN: 0596009623
September 2005

That’s why many IT administrators and developers are actively looking to set up VoIP-based private telephone switching systems within the enterprise. The efficiency that network users can reach with it is almost mind-boggling. And cheap, if the system is built with open source software like Asterisk. There are commercial VoIP options out there, but many are expensive systems running old, complicated code on obsolete hardware. Asterisk runs on Linux and can interoperate with almost all standards-based telephony equipment. And you can program it to your liking.

Asterisk’s flexibility comes at a price, however: it’s not a simple system to learn, and the documentation is lacking. Asterisk: The Future of Telephony solves that problem by offering a complete roadmap for installing, configuring, and integrating Asterisk with existing phone systems. Our guide walks you through a basic dial plan step by step, and gives you enough working knowledge to set up a simple but complete system.

What you end up with is largely up to you. Asterisk embraces the concept of standards-compliance, but also gives you freedom to choose how to implement your system. Asterisk: The Future of Telephony outlines all the options, and shows you how to set up voicemail services, call conferencing, interactive voice response, call waiting, caller ID, and more. You’ll also learn how Asterisk merges voice and data traffic seamlessly across disparate networks. And you won’t need additional hardware. For interconnection with digital and analog telephone equipment, Asterisk supports a number of hardware devices.

source: Artech House

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]]> http://www.telecombooksblog.com/asterisk-the-future-of-telephony.htm/feed 0 Internet Communications Using SIP http://www.telecombooksblog.com/internet-communications-using-sip.htm http://www.telecombooksblog.com/internet-communications-using-sip.htm#comments Tue, 14 Nov 2006 18:17:06 +0000 Tony http://www.telecombooksblog.com/internet-communications-using-sip.htm

"...a very good explanation of an interesting topic…the overview of SIP is excellent…a call flow explains the complex sequence of events very well..." (Computer Bulletin, September 2002)

"This book is like a good tour guide.It doesn't just describe the major attractions; you share in the history, spirit, language, and culture of the place."
--Henning Schulzrinne, Professor, Columbia University

]]> Internet Communications Using SIP Henry Sinnreich, Alan B. Johnston
ISBN: 0471776572
July 2006

Since its birth in 1996, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) has grown up. As a richer, much more robust technology, SIP today is fully capable of supporting the communication systems that power our twenty-first century work and life.

This second edition handbook has been revamped to cover the newest standards, services, and products. You’ll find the latest on SIP usage beyond VoIP, including Presence, instant messaging (IM), mobility, and emergency services, as well as peer-to-peer SIP applications, quality-of-service, and security issues–everything you need to build and deploy today’s SIP services.

This book will help you

  • Work with SIP in Presence and event-based communications
  • Handle SIP-based application-level mobility issues
  • Develop applications to facilitate communications access for users with disabilities
  • Set up Internet-based emergency services
  • Explore how peer-to-peer SIP systems may change VoIP
  • Understand the critical importance of Internet transparency
  • Identify relevant standards and specifications
  • Handle potential quality-of-service and security problems

source: Wiley

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]]> http://www.telecombooksblog.com/internet-communications-using-sip.htm/feed 0 Speech Quality of VoIP: Assessment and Prediction http://www.telecombooksblog.com/speech-quality-of-voip-assessment-and-prediction.htm http://www.telecombooksblog.com/speech-quality-of-voip-assessment-and-prediction.htm#comments Thu, 09 Nov 2006 04:17:58 +0000 Tony http://www.telecombooksblog.com/speech-quality-of-voip-assessment-and-prediction.htm Speech Quality of VoIP: Assessment and PredictionThis is an essential guide to assessing the speech quality of VoIP networks, whilst addressing the implications for the design of VoIP networks and systems. This book bridges the gap between the technical network-world and the psychoacoustic world of quality perception. Alexander Raake?s unique perspective combines awareness of the technical characteristics of VoIP networks and original research concerning the perception of speech transmitted across them.]]> Speech Quality of VoIP: Assessment and Prediction Alexander Raake
ISBN: 0470030607
October 2006

Starting from the network designer’s point of view, the different characteristics of the network are addressed, and then linked to features perceived by users. This book provides an overview of the available knowledge on the principal, relevant aspects of speech and speech quality perception, of speech quality assessment, and of transmission properties of telephone and VoIP networks, and of the related perceptual features and resulting speech quality. Discussing new research into the specific time-varying degradations VoIP brings along, but also the considerable potential of quality improvement to be achieved with wideband speech transmission, Alexander Raake demonstrates how network and service characteristics impact on the users perception of quality.

Speech Quality of VoIP:

  • Offers an insight into speech quality of VoIP from a user’s perspective.
  • Presents an overview of different modelling approaches and a parametric network-planning model for quality prediction in VoIP networks.
  • Draws on innovative new research on the quality degradation characteristic of VoIP.
  • Explains in detail how telephone speech quality can be greatly enhanced with VoIP’s wideband speech transmission capability.
  • Assesses the vast collection of references into the technical and scientific literature related to VoIP quality.
  • Illustrates concepts throughout with mathematical models, algorithms and simulations.

Speech Quality of VoIP is the definitive guide for researchers, engineers and network planners working in the field of VoIP, Quality of Service, and speech communication processing in telecommunications. Advanced undergraduate and graduate students on telecommunication and networking courses will also find this text an invaluable resource.

source: Wiley

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