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Beyond VoIP Protocols: Understanding Voice Technology and Networking Techniques for IP Telephony

Book Title: Beyond VoIP Protocols : Understanding Voice Technology and Networking Techniques for IP Telephony
Author: Olivier Hersent, Jean-Pierre Petit, David Gurle
Publication: John Wiley & Sons, February 2005
ISBN: 0470023627


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Book Review: Beyond VoIP Protocols: Understanding Voice Technology and Networking Techniques for IP Telephony

VoIP Services had been once king of the era in early 2000 but due to the NASDAQ crash, the market share of VoIP service provider decreased by a sharp curve. The VoIP market had seen a sharp decrease curve after the telecom bubble burst in 2000-2001 and due to the failures, the companies has been considering the factors that lead to the crash of VoIP services market and the book describes many factors to such studies.

Provides Information regarding post-Bubble VoIP Networks

The book written in clear and understandable language provides quite conclusive information on designing the VoIP network after the burst of telecom bubble in 2002. It provides an overview of many issues relating to the deployment of revenue generating multimedia systems which are considered as an integral part of modern VoIP networks.

Provides Basics of Speech and Voice Quality

Authors have tried to incorporate the most dominant factors of VoIP networks such as Voice coding and quality checks. It provides the basic foundation of coding methods that can be used for voice coding in modern networks.

Voice quality is another dominant issue in today´s VoIP networks as due to the rising competition, every VoIP service provider has been trying to provide a high quality of voice in their networks to attract and maintain most customers. The book provides detailed information on QoS or Quality of Service in the VoIP networks dealing with multiple domains such as multi point communication and model call seizures.

Excellent Practical and Theoretical Explanations

Authors are having an extremely good knowledge about the VoIP sectors and have provided many useful and beneficial practical advices regarding the implementation of modern VoIP networks. It also provides detailed instruction to use multipoint communication to turn an ordinary VoIP network to an high capacity modern VoIP network.