1. Edition - April 2008
77.90 Euro
2008. 276 Pages, Hardcover
- Practical Approach Book -
ISBN-10: 0-470-31956-9
ISBN-13: 978-0-470-31956-7 - John Wiley & Sons






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Short description
VoIP: Emerging Trends and Technologies describes the issues arising in deploying VoIP in emerging heterogeneous network environment. Along with a brief overview of the concepts, protocols, algorithms, and equipment involved in realizing VoIP, the book focuses mainly on two areas: the quality and performance issues in deploying VoIP over various network settings; and the new mechanisms, protocols in the emerging networks to assist the deployment of VoIP. Together, the book provides a unified view to the advances made both in the VoIP technologies and network technologies that guides the effective deployment of VoIP services.

From the contents
Preface.

PART I PRELIMINARIES.

1 Introduction to VoIP Networks.

2 Basics of VoIP.

3 VoIP Codecs.

4 Performance of Voice Codecs.

5 VoIP Protocols.

PART II VOIP IN OVERLAY NETWORKS.

6 Overlay Networks.

7 P2P Technology.

8 VoIP over Infrastructure Overlays.

9 VoIP over P2P.

PART III VOIP IN WIRELESS NETWORKS.

10 IEEE 802.11 Wireless Networks.

11 Voice over IEEE 802.11 Wireless Networks.

12 IEEE 802.16 WiMAX.

13 Voice over WiMAX.

PART IV VOIP IN ENTERPRISE NETWORKS.

14 Private Branch Exchange (PBX).

15 Network Address Translation (NAT) and Firewall.

PART V VOIP SERVICE DEPLOYMENT.

16 Supporting Services and Applications.

17 Security and Privacy.

18 IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS).

Index.