Voice Over IP Networks Author:Marcus Goncalves There's no hotter, or potentially more lucrative Internet application than telephony. And any company running a TCP/IP stack network can deliver it. This book tells you how. Once a guest on telephone lines, the Net now threatens a takeover of its host's principal function: voice communications. For intrabusiness use or as a public system, Intern... more »et-based telephony can be a real money-saver, or money-maker. In Voice Over IP Networks, you'll learn everything you need to: understand Voice Over IP (VOIP) standards and technology; compare leading vendors and their Internet telephony productsÑ3Com, Motorola, Lucent, VocalTec, Vienna Systems, Nuera Communications, and more; evaluate advantages of the IPv6 vs. IPv4 protocols; use RSVP, RTSP, IP Multicast, SONET, ATM, and other technologies for telephony; apply Codecs to voice digitization; emulate T1/E1 trunks; and anticipate trends and new products from innovative companies such as Qwest. From basic concepts to advanced configuration and troubleshooting issues, this book is your direct line to Internet telephony answers. With all the help you need to get your system up and running, Voice Over IP Networks moves you to the head of the line to profit, in a big way, from Internet telephony.« less