Internet Communications Using SIP: Delivering VoIP and Multimedia Services with Session Initiation Protocol (Networking Council)

"This book is like a good tour guide.It doesn't just describe the major attractions; you share in the history, spirit, language, and culture of the place."
--Henning Schulzrinne, Professor, Columbia University

Since its birth in 1996, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) has grown up. As a richer, much more robust technology, SIP today is fully capable of supporting the communication systems that power our twenty-first century work and life.

This second edition handbook has been revamped to cover the newest standards, services, and products. You'll find the latest on SIP usage beyond VoIP, including Presence, instant messaging (IM), mobility, and emergency services, as well as peer-to-peer SIP applications, quality-of-service, and security issues--everything you need to build and deploy today's SIP services.

This book will help you
* Work with SIP in Presence and event-based communications
* Handle SIP-based application-level mobility issues
* Develop applications to facilitate communications access for users with disabilities
* Set up Internet-based emergency services
* Explore how peer-to-peer SIP systems may change VoIP
* Understand the critical importance of Internet transparency
* Identify relevant standards and specifications
* Handle potential quality-of-service and security problems

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VoIP Technologies: A Comprehensive Guide to Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)

Your complete guide to Voice over Internet Protocol

Looking for a reference on Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)? VoIP Technologies, your complete guide to Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), provides a comprehensive foundation of VoIP technology, as well as the knowledge necessary to successfully support any VoIP product.

Designed for those who have a working knowledge of data, this guide examines the major components of VoIP networks, the incorporation of VoIP into a data network, packaging and transmitting voice, maintaining voice quality, and addressing traffic issues. Many other topics are also discussed in this section, including VoIP standards, protocols, and configuring networks for VoIP. The second half of the guide focuses on designing and supporting complex VoIP solutions encountered in Wide and Local Area Networks (WAN and LAN).

This guide will also help to prepare you for the Technology Standards and Protocols for IP Telephony Solutions (920-803) and Technology Standards and Protocols for Converged Networks (920-804). Nortel Professional Certification exams.

Key Topics:

- Major components of the VoIP network

- Voice packetization

- Voice quality

- Bandwidth

- Quality of Service (QoS)

- Traffic convergence issues

- VoIP standardization and signaling protocols

- Managing VoIP networks

- Security in the VoIP environment

- Emergency services in the VoIP environment

- Technology standards and protocols for converged networks

- Network assessment

Today an understanding of VoIP is essential, because it allows network operators to lower operations costs and take advantage of advanced applications. The VoIP Technologies guide will provide you with the knowledge you need to understand VoIP, support a wide-variety of VoIP products, and prepare for Nortel Professional Certification exams.

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