Voip Hacks: Tips & Tools for Internet Telephony Contributor(s): Wallingford, Theodore (Author) |
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ISBN: 0596101333 ISBN-13: 9780596101336 Publisher: O'Reilly Media OUR PRICE: $26.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2006 Annotation: Voice over Internet Protocol is gaining a lot of attention these days. Both practical and fun, this text provides technology enthusiasts and voice professionals with dozens of hands-on projects for building a VoIP network, including a softPBX. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Computers | Networking - Network Protocols - Technology & Engineering | Telecommunications |
Dewey: 533.7 |
Series: Hacks |
Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6.18" W x 8.94" (0.96 lbs) 326 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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:
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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Wallingford, Theodore: - Ted Wallingford has designed and implemented Voice over IP on networks large and small. As IT Director for a large, private construction firm, Ted transformed a single-operator midrange computer room into a mission-critical 24x7 data center hosting services for lines of business across the country. He now offers network design for VoIP systems and product management assistance for up & coming VoIP carriers through his macVoIP.com consulting practice. Ted is also the author of O'Reilly's "Switching to VoIP". |