Voice over IP Fundamentals
- By Jonathan Davidson, James Peters, Brian Gracely.
- Published by Cisco Press.
- Series: Fundamentals.
- Published: Mar 27, 2000
- Copyright 2000
- Dimensions: 7.375 X 9.125
- Pages: 408
- Edition: 1st
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- ISBN-10: 1-57870-168-6
- ISBN-13: 978-1-57870-168-1
- eBook (Watermarked)
- ISBN-10: 1-58705-425-6
- ISBN-13: 978-1-58705-425-9
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A systematic approach to understanding the basics of Voice over IP
- Understand the basics of PSTN services and IP signaling protocols, including SS7
- Learn 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, quality of service tools, and mean opinion scores
- Learn about the functional components involved in using Cisco gateways to deploy VoIP networks
Voice over IP (VoIP), which integrates voice and data transmission, is quickly becoming an important factor in network communications. It promises lower operational costs, greater flexibility, and a variety of enhanced applications. Voice over IP Fundamentals provides a thorough introduction to this new technology to help experts in both the data and telephone industries plan for the new networks.
You will learn how the telephony infrastructure was built and how it works today, the major concepts concerning voice and data networking, transmission of voice over data, and IP signaling protocols used to interwork with current telephony systems. The authors cover various benefits and applications of VoIP and how to ensure good voice quality in your network.
This book is part of the Networking Technology Series from Cisco Press, which offers networking professionals valuable information for constructing efficient networks, understanding new technologies, and building successful careers.
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37 of 37 people found the following review helpful
Worth Reading, But of Limited Use,
This review is from: Voice over IP Fundamentals (Hardcover)
I've had the Davidson book on the shelf for about a year and finally picked it up for a careful read to help me prepare of Cisco's CVOICE exam. While the book is useful toward that end, I recommend it only cautiously.No doubt part of the problem is mine; by background includes extensive data but very little voice experience. I found the topic Signaling System 7 and similar topics to be slow reading, and I questioned the value of the IP tutorial. A reader with the inverse of my background may have exactly the opposite experience. This book is unusually dense with acronyms, even for a technical book. The nature of the topic makes acronyms unavoidable, but I felt the lack of a glossary was a serious deficiency. I frequently found myself flipping back and forth through the book to decode an acronym to no avail. Thorough readers might want to construct their own glossary with index cards. I also had the sense, especially toward the end of the book, that I was getting less of an... Read more
20 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Ideal Prerequisite to Cisco Voice Integration (the Cookbook),
This review is from: Voice over IP Fundamentals (Hardcover)
Jon and James have a conversational writing style that was easy to follow for me. They have included a lot of historical information that should help the reader understand the momentum behind the transition that is taking place today, creating a "new-world" model of internetworking that has its own rules.As previously mentioned, this is not a design and implementation guide - the forthcoming Cisco Press title "Cisco Voice Integration" will be when it is released. This book does, however, give the reader a very detailed introduction to the underlying technologies that make Voice over IP, Voice over Frame Relay, and Voice over ATM work. The book was a good read even for someone like myself with over 12 years in telephony and networking. Jon and James have done a good job of collecting and communicating relevant information about each of the VoIP building blocks.
21 of 23 people found the following review helpful
Best suited for Telephony engineers,
By A Customer
This review is from: Voice over IP Fundamentals (Hardcover)
Strong Points: -The people who wrote it are definitely knowledgeable: They have loads of information about almost every topic they discuss -Chapter organization: the chapters are well organized as far as the order in which to expose a reader to the topics, building up to the next. Weak Points: -In almost every chapter, the author(s) frequently mention or compare the topic being discussed with an actual Cisco product. While many people agree they make good products, including myself, this book should be about the VoIP as a standard (as the title implies), not Cisco's products. -The author(s) explain most topics by throwing tons of (or too much) information at the reader, including exceptions to the rule - all in the same sentence. Some of the key points are not even mentioned or elaborated on, while the author goes to point out small or insignificant details. -While discussing the history of Telephony and VoIP technology, the use of acronyms is unavoidable, but the author(s)...
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Table of Contents
(NOTE: Each chapter concludes with a Summary.)
I. PSTN.
II. VOICE OVER IP TECHNOLOGY.
III. IP SIGNALING PROTOCOLS.
IV. VOICE OVER IP APPLIED.
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