Converged Network Architectures
The development of the Internet has brought about an easiness in communication that makes the world seem smaller. However, interactive, real-time communication is still vital to corporations, and great distance phone calls are not inexpensive. Thus new ways to reduce costs have been considered, and Voice over IP is one of them.
Designed to route voice data packets over the existing Internet infrastructure, VoIP systems have made possible real time, interactive communication at low costs, over great and small distances alike. Such communication can benefit from the use of computers in the form of encryption, the ability to call multiple parties at the same time, exchange of multimedia files such as graphs and diagrams and enhancing the conversation by use of video feeds. The network type that can integrate voice, video and data traffic into a single network are called ‘converged’ networks, and provide increased efficiency and cost-effectiveness to companies that need an active, robust communication system.
There are disadvantages to using VoIP as well, since the way data packets are routed through the network depends heavily on the type of implementation (Frame Relay, ATM, regular IP), and there are cost and quality tradeoffs that need to be considered before implementing such a system. Also, the successful deployment of a VoIP system depends on the requirements, such as the reliability, scalability or ease of maintenance and the costs of the initial investment, which can turn a company away from this method of communication.
Converged Network Architectures: Delivering Voice and Data Over IP, ATM, and Frame Relay by Oliver C. Ide, deals with the details of implementing a converged network using the most frequent network architectures available today: IP, ATM and Frame Relay, being a quick reference to converged networks.
The 416 pages tome outlines the advantages of having a converged network instead of dedicate voice and data ones, and covers most standards and protocols needed in order to successfully deploy such a network. Its coverage includes SIP, H323, MPLS, and H.248, and the trademark style of writing makes understanding the network architectures such as SONET, IP, ATM and Frame Relay an easy task for the readers.
Converged Network Architectures offers up-to-date knowledge that helps readers get a perspective on converged networks, as it illustrates the way voice and data networks operate, how voice can be coded into packets for transmission and processing, and how this all can be connected for use into a VoIP solution. The book also delves how the converged network can help a corporation by providing high reliability and quality of service at low costs.
More than just a book on Voice over IP, Converged Network Architectures even covers alternative implementation systems, like softswitches – software products that can replace expensive hardware parts in a VoIP system – for IP, constituting a comprehensive reference of the major network architectures. The fact that it covers the topics from an economical standpoint too makes Converged Network Architectures useful to both managers and decision makers as well as to network specialists.
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Converged Network Architectures: Delivering Voice and Data Over IP, ATM, and Frame Relay
| Book Title: | Converged Network Architectures: Delivering Voice and Data Over IP, ATM, and Frame Relay |
| Author: | Oliver C. Ibe |
| Publication: | Wiley Press November 2001 |
| ISBN: | 471202509 |
Converged Network Architectures: Delivering Voice and Data Over IP, ATM, and Frame Relay by Oliver C. Ide, deals with the details of implementing a converged network using the most frequent network architectures available today: IP, ATM and Frame Relay, being a quick reference to converged networks.
The 416 pages tome outlines the advantages of having a converged network instead of dedicate voice and data ones, and covers most standards and protocols needed in order to successfully deploy such a network. Its coverage includes SIP, H323, MPLS, and H.248, and the trademark style of writing makes understanding the network architectures such as SONET, IP, ATM and Frame Relay an easy task for the readers.
Converged Network Architectures offers up-to-date knowledge that helps readers get a perspective on converged networks, as it illustrates the way voice and data networks operate, how voice can be coded into packets for transmission and processing, and how this all can be connected for use into a VoIP solution. The book also delves how the converged network can help a corporation by providing high reliability and quality of service at low costs.
More than just a book on Voice over IP, Converged Network Architectures even covers alternative implementation systems, like softswitches – software products that can replace expensive hardware parts in a VoIP system – for IP, constituting a comprehensive reference of the major network architectures. The fact that it covers the topics from an economical standpoint too makes Converged Network Architectures useful to both managers and decision makers as well as to network specialists.another private review of this book
