Ip Telephony Resource Kit

The communications engineer's all-in-one resource for Internet telephony. Voice over IP, Second Edition NEW! The bestselling guide to delivering voice traffic over the Internet now completely updated! Internet Telephony: Call Processing Protocols Key source for the principal Internet telephony services and standards!Buy both titles at a special reference set discount! Voice over IP, 2/e NEW!Uyless Black has written the essential guide for telecommunications professionals who must understand or deploy Voice over IP (VoIP). Clearheaded and free of hype, the fully updated second edition carefully evaluates both VoIP's challenges and its compelling advantages, and then reviews each technical standard and critical issues associated with successful deployment. Includes coverage of TRIP, internetworking SS7, RSVP, DiffServ, traffic engineering, and QOS. Internet Telephony: Call Processing ProtocolsInternet Telephony begins with an overview of basic telephony call processing, focusing on the differences between traditional circuit switching and the more contemporary packet-based networks. A special section discusses telephony routing over IP. Along the way, Black explores the major standards and protocols in detail. Highlights include: H.323, the ITU standard for transmitting mixed media signals via LANS and WANs; SIP, the IETF's Session Initiation Protocol used for IP teleconferencing; Megaco Protocol, a combined IETF/ITU standard for multimedia conferencing; and MGCP, a call processing protocol published as an informational RFC.Black, Uyless D. is the author of 'Ip Telephony Resource Kit' with ISBN 9780130660626 and ISBN 0130660620.