Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 326 pages
- Published by: O'Reilly Media, Inc. December 22, 2005
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0596101333
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0596101336
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Book Dimensions:
8.8 x 6 x 0.9 inches
- Weighs: 14.4 ounces
Product 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:
- 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.
About The Author
Ted Wallingford is an executive technologist and the co-founder of Best Technology Strategy LLC, a company which helps entrepreneurs and established companies alike in the adoption, integration, and successful use of communication systems and business processes. A global thought leader on the subject of VoIP and Internet Protocol communications, Ted has emerged as an expert in the emerging fields of network convergence and unified business communication. Ted has written two technology books for O'Reilly Media, and has appeared on NPR Science Friday. He also periodically writes for Macworld Magazine and maintains the Signal to Noise blog. He resides in Cleveland, OH.
Reader ReviewsI enjoyed reading this book. It's got great information on the different VoIP services and how they work. And it has a bunch of fun recipes that you can use to play with the services. I really enjoyed the one about altering your voice. As well as the information on how to record iChat and Skype. That is really handy.
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