Network Management: Accounting and 
IEEE Spectrum - January 2009
2009/09/20 23:18 | by 
# Paperback: 502 pages
# Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.; illustrated edition edition (June 30, 2005)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0596008686
# ISBN-13: 978-0596008680
Product Description
More and more businesses today have their receive phone service through Internet instead of local phone company lines. Many businesses are also using their internal local and wide-area network infrastructure to replace legacy enterprise telephone networks. This migration to a single network carrying voice and data is called convergence, and it's revolutionizing the world of telecommunications by slashing costs and empowering users. The technology of families driving this convergence is called VoIP, or Voice over IP.
VoIP has advanced Internet-based telephony to a viable solution, piquing the interest of companies small and large. The primary reason for migrating to VoIP is cost, as it equalizes the costs of long distance calls, local calls, and e-mails to fractions of a penny per use. But the real enterprise turn-on is how VoIP empowers
businesses to mold and customize telecom and datacom solutions using a single, cohesive networking platform. These business drivers are so compelling that legacy telephony is going the way of the dinosaur, yielding to Voice over IP as the dominant enterprise communications paradigm.
Developed from real-world experience by a senior developer, O'Reilly's "Switching to VoIP" provides solutions for the most common VoIP migration challenges. So if you're a network professional who is migrating from a traditional telephony system to a modern, feature-rich network, this book is a must-have. You'll
discover the strengths and weaknesses of circuit-switched and packet-switched networks, how VoIP systems impact network infrastructure, as well as solutions for common challenges involved with IP voice migrations. Among the challenges discussed andprojects presented:
building a softPBX
configuring IP phones
ensuring quality of service
scalability
standards-compliance
topological considerations
coordinating a complete system ?switchover?
migrating applications like voicemail and directory
services
retro-interfacing to traditional telephony
supporting mobile users
security and survivability
dealing with the challenges of NAT
To help you grasp the core principles at work, "Switching to VoIP" uses a combination of strategy and hands-on "how-to" that introduce VoIP routers and media gateways, various makes of IP telephone equipment, legacy analog phones, IPTables and Linux firewalls, and the Asterisk open source PBX software by Digium.
You'll learn how to build an IP-based or legacy-compatible phone system and voicemail system complete with e-mail integration while becoming familiar with VoIP protocols and devices. "Switching to VoIP" remains vendor-neutral and advocates standards, not brands. Some of the standards explored include:
SIP
H.323, SCCP, and IAX
Voice codecs
802.3af
Type of Service, IP precedence, DiffServ, and RSVP
802.1a/b/g WLAN
If VoIP has your attention, like so many others, then Switching to VoIP will help you build your own system, install it, and begin making calls. It's the only thing left between you and a modern telecom network.
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.
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